mustar

Borrowed from English must, German musste, first and third person preterite of müssen. Cognate with Dutch moest, Swedish måste. Decision no. 149, Progreso III.

• IPA^(key): /musˈtar/

mustar (present mustas, past mustis, future mustos, conditional mustus, imperative mustez)

1. (intransitive) must, to have to, to be under the necessity of, be obliged

   Quon on mustas facar por enirar en la cielo?

   What must one do to enter heaven?

   Il ne povas venar kun me, il mustas laborar.

   He can't come with me, he has to work.

2. (past tense) had to

• Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 570
• Progreso II (in Ido), 1909–1910, page 29, 31, 166, 354, 355
• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 530
• Progreso VI (in Ido), 1913–1914, page 487

• musdar (obsolete)[1]

From English muster, from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer, from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʊsˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/[2]

mustar m (genitive singular mustair, nominative plural mustair)

1. (military) muster
2. ostentation, display
3. swagger, flash, flashiness, pomp

• mustar gan ghustal
• mustrach
• rolla mustair (“muster roll”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mustar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 504
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mustar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN