moi

From French moi.

• IPA^(key): /mwɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

moi

1. (humorous or sarcastic, often used questioningly to express mock surprise) Me.

   Don't you be so cheeky. — Cheeky? Moi?

   Who'd have thought that such a thing would happen to little old moi!

   • 2000 April 30, John Swartzwelder, “Kill the Alligator and Run”, in The Simpsons, season 11, episode 19:

     Kid Rock: Yo, let's waste that biotch. / Homer: Biotch? Moi?

   • 2011, Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets, spoken by Miss Piggy:

     There's only one Miss Piggy, and she is moi.

• culte du moi
• ménage à moi

• IMO, IOM, Imo, Mio, imo, omi

moi

1. land snake
2. paternal grandfather

• main (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German mīn, form Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”). Cognate with German mein, English mine.

moi

1. (Luserna) my

   Moi pruadar Sèpp hatt 9 djar. ― My brother Joe is nine years old.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Low German; see German Low German moin. Has also been compared with moro, suggesting a connection with Swedish morgon, but this is now considered unlikely.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoi̯/, [ˈmo̞i̯]

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• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): moi

moi

1. hi, hello

• “moi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• omi

• moé (Quebec, colloquial)

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me.

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei; Gallo mai; Picard moè; Bourguignon moi; Franco-Provençal mè; Occitan and Corsican me.

• IPA^(key): /mwa/

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• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /mwe/
• Homophone: mois

moi

1. me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
2. to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)

• mézigue (argot)

• à moi
• et moi donc

moi m (uncountable)

1. ego

• non-moi

• je
• me

• “moi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese moi, mui, from moito, muito (“very”) (moi is exclusively used by Galician authors and in the Cantigas de Santa Maria).

• IPA^(key): /moj/

moi

1. Apocopic form of moito (“very”)

• moi logo

• moito

• “mui” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “moi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “moi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “moi” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

moi

1. Rōmaji transcription of もい

From Middle High German meie, from Old High German meio, from Latin Maius. Cognate with German Mai.

moi m

1. May

• (Gregorian calendar months) genner, hourneng, merz, oberel, moi, prochet, heibeger, agst, leistagst, schanmikeal, òlderhaileng, schantònderer ^{(Category: mhn:Gregorian calendar months)}

• “moi” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moi and Nüpode Huitoto moi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔi]
• Hyphenation: moi

moi

1. rear

moi

1. rear

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 178
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

Inherited from Assamese মই (moi), from Early Assamese মঞি (moñi), মই (moi), Kamarupi Prakrit 𑖦𑖂 (mai, “by me”), 𑖦𑖺𑖊 (moe), from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀇 (maï, “by me”), 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (máyā, “by me”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *máyaH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH, the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵHom.

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

   Synonym: ami

inherited from Assamese মই (moi).

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

• mei (early Old French or Anglo-Norman)
• mi (early Old French)

Tonic form of me, from Latin mē.

moi

1. me

• Similar in terms of usage to modern French moi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use me :

  ele se paine de moi ocire (modern French uses me tuer or m’occire).

• me
• jo

• Middle French: moy
  • French: moi

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɔi
• Syllabification: mo‧i

moi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mój

• IPA^(key): [moj]

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moi

1. first/second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of muia

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

moi

1. beautiful

From Proto-Vietic *-mɔːl ~ muəl (“digging stick”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟmuul ~ *ɟmuəl (“to dibble”); cognate with Bahnar jơmul (“to plant rice using dibble stick to make holes”) and Khmu [Cuang] cmɔːl ("to plant"). Compare mói (as in soi mói, from Proto-Vietic *c-mɔːlʔ).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɔj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɔj˧˧]

moi • (𫴱)

1. to drag out, to dig out

(classifier con) moi

1. a kind of sea shrimp