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must

Pronunciation: /ˈmust/

“must” is an Estonian word. Its 11 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. black (color)
  2. Dark, without light, illumination (and poorly visible).
  3. Without snow.
  4. Having dark skin.
  5. Dirty, unclean, full of garbage and/or grime.
  6. Not requiring special skills, making something or someone dirty.
  7. Grim, dreary, hopeless, without any (good) solution.
  8. Illegal, unofficial, disgraceful.

noun

  1. The color black.
  2. Something colored in black.
  3. A person having dark skin.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *musta. Cognate with Finnish musta, Veps must and Livonian mustā. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *mus-ta-, compare Norwegian Bokmål must (“steam, fume, mist”).

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