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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese morna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morna (countable and uncountable, plural mornas)
- (uncountable, music) A genre of Cape Verdean music and dance.
- 2005, Kate Tuttle, “Evora, Cesaria”, in edited by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 593:
- She [Cesária Évora] is most famous for singing morna, which roughly translates to “songs of mourning.” As with many other kinds of folk music, morna songs are handed down from generation to generation, tracing dominant themes in a people's history.
- (countable) A piece of music in this style.
Translations
[edit]a genre of Cape Verdean music
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Further reading
[edit]morna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Adjective
[edit]morna
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology 1
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Alternative forms
[edit]- morgna (verb)
Verb
[edit]morna
- (impersonal) to dawn (become morning)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of morna — impersonal, active (weak class 2)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- mornan f (“dawn”)
Related terms
[edit]- morginn m (“morning”)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: morgna
Noun
[edit]morna
References
[edit]- “morna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *murnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think; remember”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan) and English mourn.
Verb
[edit]morna
- (intransitive) to waste away
- (transitive) to cause to pine
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of morna — active (weak class 2)
infinitive | morna | |
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present participle | mornandi | |
past participle | mornaðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | morna | mornaða |
2nd-person singular | mornar | mornaðir |
3rd-person singular | mornar | mornaði |
1st-person plural | mornum | mornuðum |
2nd-person plural | mornið | mornuðuð |
3rd-person plural | morna | mornuðu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | morna | mornaða |
2nd-person singular | mornir | mornaðir |
3rd-person singular | morni | mornaði |
1st-person plural | mornim | mornaðim |
2nd-person plural | mornið | mornaðið |
3rd-person plural | morni | mornaði |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | morna | |
1st-person plural | mornum | |
2nd-person plural | mornið |
Conjugation of morna — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive | mornask | |
---|---|---|
present participle | mornandisk | |
past participle | mornazk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | mornumk | mornuðumk |
2nd-person singular | mornask | mornaðisk |
3rd-person singular | mornask | mornaðisk |
1st-person plural | mornumsk | mornuðumsk |
2nd-person plural | mornizk | mornuðuzk |
3rd-person plural | mornask | mornuðusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | mornumk | mornuðumk |
2nd-person singular | mornisk | mornaðisk |
3rd-person singular | mornisk | mornaðisk |
1st-person plural | mornimsk | mornaðimsk |
2nd-person plural | mornizk | mornaðizk |
3rd-person plural | mornisk | mornaðisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | mornask | |
1st-person plural | mornumsk | |
2nd-person plural | mornizk |
Related terms
[edit]- morn f (“pining away”)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: morna
References
[edit]- “morna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From morno.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]morna f (plural mornas)
Adjective
[edit]morna
Further reading
[edit]- “morna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “morna”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
morna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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