nūoŗkū

Livonian
Nūoŗkū

Etymology

From nūoŗ (“young”) +‎ kū (“moon”). The usage of the adjective nūoŗ – perhaps by contamination with Latvian jauns, as Latvian lacks separate terms for "new" and "young." Compare Finnish uusikuu (“new moon”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nuːorʲkuː/

Noun

nūoŗkū

  1. new moon

Declension
Declension of nūoŗkū (12)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) nūoŗkū –
genitive (genitīv) nūoŗkū –
partitive (partitīv) nūoŗkūdõ –
dative (datīv) nūoŗkūn –
instrumental (instrumentāl) nūoŗkūkõks –
illative (illatīv) nūoŗkūzõ –
inessive (inesīv) nūoŗkūsõ
nūoŗkūs		 –
elative (elatīv) nūoŗkūstõ
nūoŗkūst		 –
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