murre

murre

English

Common murre or common guillemot

Etymology

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /mɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: murr, myrrh

Noun

murre (plural murres)

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • 1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community‎, page 252:

     It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

   • 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,

     About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

   • 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,

     Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.

Synonyms

• (any bird of genus Uria): guillemot

Derived terms

• thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia)
• common murre (Uria aalge)

Translations

seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family

Chukchi: ӄэруӄэр (qėruqėr), ӄэрут pl (qėrut) Czech: alkoun Faroese: lomvigi m, lomviga f Finnish: kiisla (fi) Hungarian: lumma (hu) Korean: 바다오리 (ko) (badaori) Norman: âne dé mé m, dgillemot m Norwegian: Bokmål: lomvi m Polish: nurzyk (pl) m Russian: ка́йра (ru) f (kájra)

See also

• merganser
• razorbill (relative)

Anagrams

• Rumer

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Estonian

Noun

murre (genitive murde, partitive murret)

1. dialect

Declension

Inflection of murre (ÕS type 6/mõte, rd-rr gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	murre	murded
accusative	murde	murded
genitive	murde	murrete
partitive	murret	murdeid
illative	murdesse	murretesse murdeisse
inessive	murdes	murretes murdeis
elative	murdest	murretest murdeist
allative	murdele	murretele murdeile
adessive	murdel	murretel murdeil
ablative	murdelt	murretelt murdeilt
translative	murdeks	murreteks murdeiks
terminative	murdeni	murreteni
essive	murdena	murretena
abessive	murdeta	murreteta
comitative	murdega	murretega

Further reading

• murre in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

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Finnish

Etymology 1

murtaa +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurːeˣ/, [ˈmurːe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -urːe
• Syllabification^(key): mur‧re

Noun

murre

1. dialect

Declension

Inflection of murre (Kotus type 48*K/hame, rt-rr gradation)
nominative		murre	murteet
genitive		murteen	murteiden murteitten
partitive		murretta	murteita
illative		murteeseen	murteisiin murteihin
		singular	plural
nominative		murre	murteet
accusative	nom.	murre	murteet
	gen.	murteen
genitive		murteen	murteiden murteitten
partitive		murretta	murteita
inessive		murteessa	murteissa
elative		murteesta	murteista
illative		murteeseen	murteisiin murteihin
adessive		murteella	murteilla
ablative		murteelta	murteilta
allative		murteelle	murteille
essive		murteena	murteina
translative		murteeksi	murteiksi
instructive		—	murtein
abessive		murteetta	murteitta
comitative		—	murteineen

Possessive forms of murre (type hame)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	murteeni	murteemme
2nd person	murteesi	murteenne
3rd person	murteensa

Compounds

compounds

• itämurre
• kansanmurre
• kotimurre
• länsimurre
• murreaineisto
• murreaines
• murrealue
• murreasu
• murrehavainto
• murreilmaus
• murrekirjallisuus
• murremaantiede
• murrepakina
• murreryhmä
• murresana
• murretutkimus
• paikallismurre
• pohjalaismurre
• savolaismurre

Etymology 2

Probably from the verb murista (“to growl”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurːe/, [ˈmurːe̞]
• Rhymes: -urːe
• Syllabification^(key): mur‧re

Noun

murre

1. (dialectal) dog, pooch

Declension

Inflection of murre (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		murre	murret
genitive		murren	murrejen
partitive		murrea	murreja
illative		murreen	murreihin
		singular	plural
nominative		murre	murret
accusative	nom.	murre	murret
	gen.	murren
genitive		murren	murrejen murreinrare
partitive		murrea	murreja
inessive		murressa	murreissa
elative		murresta	murreista
illative		murreen	murreihin
adessive		murrella	murreilla
ablative		murrelta	murreilta
allative		murrelle	murreille
essive		murrena	murreina
translative		murreksi	murreiksi
instructive		—	murrein
abessive		murretta	murreitta
comitative		—	murreineen

Possessive forms of murre (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	murreni	murremme
2nd person	murresi	murrenne
3rd person	murrensa

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

murre

1. inflection of murren:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

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Ingrian

Noun

murre

1. dialect

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Middle English

Noun

murre

1. Alternative form of mirre