masu

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmasuː/

Noun

masu

1. A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.

Noun

masu (plural masu)

1. A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.

Noun

masu (plural masu)

1. masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Declension

Synonyms

• maha
• vatsa

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d26

  massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg

  if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^b12

  Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?

  If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?

  (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^b1

  massu rect fíriánigedar cách

  if it is law that justifies everyone