moes

• IPA^(key): /mus/

moes

1. preterite of moet; had to

   Die kinders moes in haar kar kots.

   The children had to puke in her car.

• IPA^(key): /mus/

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• Hyphenation: moes
• Rhymes: -us

From Middle Dutch moes, from Old Dutch muos, from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą.

moes f or n (uncountable)

1. mush, pulp (of food)

Compare moeder, moe.

moes f (uncountable, diminutive moesje n)

1. (colloquial, often in the diminutive) mom, mother

moes

1. inessive singular of mood

moes

1. second-person singular present indicative of moer

• Mous (Aubel)
• Muus (Eupen, Krefeld, german-based spelling)
• moues (Genk)
• meus (Griendtsveen)
• maus (Tongeren)
• moos (Val-Meer)
• moeës (various dialects)

From Middle Dutch muus, from Old Dutch *mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

moes f (plural muus, diminutive muuske)

1. mouse

From Old French meis, from Latin mēnsis, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

• IPA^(key): /mwɛ/, /møː/

moes m

1. month

From Proto-Brythonic *boɨs, from Proto-Celtic *baissā. The m- replaced the b- under the influence of Latin mōs, reinforced by the ambiguity of the lenited form foes (which could in theory come from either boes or moes).

Cognate to Breton boaz (“custom, habit”).

Attempts to relate this *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”) (via e.g. a Proto-Celtic *banssus) fail to explain the lack of a nasal and the appearance of an oe in Welsh.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /moːɨ̯s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mɔi̯s/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯s

moes f (plural moesau)

1. morality
2. (in the plural) morals

• moesol (“moral”)

• anfoesol, di-foes (“immoral”)