"-mu" meaning in Estonian

See -mu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /ˈ-mu/
Etymology: Etymology unclear. Originally a dialectism, revitalised by Estonian terminologist and lexicographer Johannes Voldemar Veski. Possibly from Proto-Finnic *-ma + Proto-Finnic *-o. Compare Finnish -mo. Etymology templates: {{unknown|et|unclear}} unclear, {{inh|et|urj-fin-pro|*-ma}} Proto-Finnic *-ma, {{inh|et|urj-fin-pro|*-o}} Proto-Finnic *-o, {{cognate|fi|-mo}} Finnish -mo Head templates: {{head|et|suffixes|genitive|-mu|||partitive|-mut|||cat2=noun-forming suffixes|f1accel-form=gen|s|f1request=1|f2accel-form=gen|s|f3accel-form=par|s|f3request=1|f4accel-form=par|s|head=}} -mu (genitive -mu, partitive -mut), {{et-noun|-mu|-mut|suff=1}} -mu (genitive -mu, partitive -mut) Inflection templates: {{et-decl-ohutu|-mu}} Forms: -mu [genitive], -mut [partitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], -mu [nominative, singular], -mud [nominative, plural], -mu [accusative, nominative, singular], -mud [accusative, nominative, plural], -mu [accusative, genitive, singular], -mud [accusative, genitive, plural], -mu [genitive, singular], -mute [genitive, plural], -mut [partitive, singular], -muid [partitive, plural], -musse [illative, singular], -mutesse [illative, plural], -muisse [illative, plural], -mus [inessive, singular], -mutes [inessive, plural], -muis [inessive, plural], -must [elative, singular], -mutest [elative, plural], -muist [elative, plural], -mule [allative, singular], -mutele [allative, plural], -muile [allative, plural], -mul [adessive, singular], -mutel [adessive, plural], -muil [adessive, plural], -mult [ablative, singular], -mutelt [ablative, plural], -muilt [ablative, plural], -muks [singular, translative], -muteks [plural, translative], -muiks [plural, translative], -muni [singular, terminative], -muteni [plural, terminative], -muna [essive, singular], -mutena [essive, plural], -muta [abessive, singular], -muteta [abessive, plural], -muga [comitative, singular], -mutega [comitative, plural]
  1. Forms nouns indicating a place. Wikipedia link: et:Johannes Voldemar Veski Tags: morpheme

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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "-must",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "-mutest",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "-muist",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "elative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-mule",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "-muni",
      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
        "illative",
        "plural"
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "plural"
      ]
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        "singular"
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        "allative",
        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "allative",
        "plural"
      ]
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        {
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          "text": "era- (“private”) + -mu → eramu (“private house”)",
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        "et:Johannes Voldemar Veski"
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.