nuga

See also:nüga,nügă,nugā,andnu-ga

Estonian

Etymology

FromProto-Finnic*nuka.Cognate withFinnishnykä.

Noun

nuga(genitivenoa,partitivenuga)

1. knife

   Synonyms:tera,laba

   Miks sanoagasedasi nusserdad, väitsaga vestetakse.

   Why are you jiggingwith aknifelike that, use the whittle for the sculpting.

Declension

Declension ofnuga(ÕS type18e/tuba,g-øgradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		nuga	noad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	noa
genitive			nugade
partitive		nuga	nuge nugasid
illative		nukka noasse	nugadesse
inessive		noas	nugades
elative		noast	nugadest
allative		noale	nugadele
adessive		noal	nugadel
ablative		noalt	nugadelt
translative		noaks	nugadeks
terminative		noani	nugadeni
essive		noana	nugadena
abessive		noata	nugadeta
comitative		noaga	nugadega

Derived terms

• leivanuga(“bread knife”)

Descendants

• →Ingrian:nuka

Related verbs

nüsima;nusima;nügima(“to nudge”)

Associated verbs

lõikama(“to cut”);pussitama(“to stab”);vestma(“to whittle”);voolima(“to sculpt”); koorima(“to peel”);nüritama(“to dull”);teritama(“to sharpen”)

Associated nouns

lõikur(“cutter”);puss(“sheath-knife”);pister(“dagger”);tääk(“bayonet”);mõõk(“sword”);kiin(“billhook”); väits(“whittle”);käänik(“clasp-knife”); kurask;käärid(“scissors”); pardel(“razor”);raakel(“doctor blade”);sirp(“sickle”);vikat(“scythe”)

Further reading

• nugainSõnaveeb(Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “nuga”,in[ETY]Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat[Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2012

Latin

Noun

nūgaf(genitivenūgae);first declension

1. (New Latin)singularofnūgae(“jests, trifles”)
   • 1588,Giordano Bruno,Camoeracensis Acrotismus,article 53:

     […]hacnuga,oblitus, non utitur ubi nobilior coeli pars illi sit sub zodiaco[…]

     […]he does not make use of thistrifle—forgotten!—when the nobler part of the sky should be there under the zodiac[…]

   • 1775,Theophan Prokopovich,Christiana Orthodoxa Theologia[…],volume 5,page27:

     Profecto enim magna est haecnuga.

     For thistrifleis actually something great.

Latvian

Noun

nugaf(4th declension)

1. nougat

Declension

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

Lithuanian

Noun

nuga?

1. nougat

Declension

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchnougat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈnu.ɡa/

Noun

nugaf(pluralnugale)

1. nougat

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nuga	nugaua		nugale	nugalele
genitive-dative	nugale	nugalei		nugale	nugalelor
vocative	—			—

References

• nugainDEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române(Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Uzbek

Noun

nuga(pluralnugalar)

1. nougat