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mūks

mūks

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Latvian

Mūks

Noun

mūks m (1st declension, feminine form: mūķene)

  1. monk (male member of a monastic or religious order, usually lives in a monastery)
    mūku iesvētīšana‎ ― the ordaining of monks
    mūks vientuļnieks‎ ― hermit monk
    dzīvot kā mūkam‎ ― to live like a monk (= in isolation)
    kristietības pirmie mūki bija ēģiptiešu Antonijs Lielais un Pahomijs Lielais‎ ― the first Christian monks were the Egyptians Anthony the Great and Pachomius the Great

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “mūks”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

A borrowing from Old Norse munkr ‎(“monk”) (cf. also Swedish, Danish munk), itslef a borrowing from Late Latin monachus (in a variant form *monikus), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μοναχός ‎(monakhós, “isolated, lonely”), from μόνος ‎(mónos, “one, alone”). This word must have been borrowed during the time of the un > ū change (9th-12th century); its first mention (already in its modern form), however, is found in 17th-century dictionaries.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mūːks]

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