knir

See also: knír

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German knirschen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /knir/

Noun

knir (plural knirs)

  1. a cracking, crunching, grinding or gnashing sound.
    • 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.
      «Sagob oles, das mödikans okömoms se lofüd e se vesüd, ed olenseadons ko ‚Abraham‛, ‚Isaac‛ e ‚Iacob‛ in regän sülas;
      du sons regäna posejedoms ini dag plödikün; us odabinons viam e knir tutas».
      "I say to you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and they shall together with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
      while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out in the outmost darkness; over there will be woeful crying and the gnashing of teeth."
    • 1961, "Tepaneit", in Volapükagased, no. 1, 4.
      Soaliko binob in cem:
      slip efugon kruäliko
      de ob, du in neit dagik
      letep jäfon me pled hölik,
      me tag e hag, seif, pleif,
      me drum e brum, me knir, letir,
      me stur e mur, noid, sijid
      de süt lü yad, de dom lü gad.

Declension
declension of knir
singular plural
nominative knir knirs
genitive knira kniras
dative knire knires
accusative kniri kniris
vocative 1 o knir! o knirs!
predicative 2 kniru knirus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
  • knirön
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