moi

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English

Etymology

From French moi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mwɑː/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Pronoun

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.

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Anagrams

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Noun

moi

  1. land snake
  2. paternal grandfather

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.

Determiner

moi

  1. (Luserna) my
    Moi pruadar Sèpp hatt 9 djar. ― My brother Joe is nine years old.

References

Finnish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Interjection

moi

  1. hi, hello

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Santeri Junttila, historical linguist at the University of Helsinki, via Yle (October 2023)

Further reading

Anagrams

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

moi

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

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French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ moi
Second — tu te, t’ toi
Third Masculine il le, l’ lui lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Gender neutral5 iel lea ellui
Indeterminate on1 — — —
Reflexive — se, s’4 soi4
Plural First — nous nous nous
Second — vous2 vous2,3 vous2
Third Masculine ils3 les leur eux
Feminine elles elles
Gender neutral5 iels elleux
1 Also used as the first person plural.
2 Also used as the polite singular form.
3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
5 Colloquial, and not in popular use.

Noun

moi m (uncountable)

  1. ego

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Adverb

moi

  1. Apocopic form of moito (“very”)

Derived terms

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References

  • “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.

Japanese

Romanization

moi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of もい

Mòcheno

Etymology

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

Noun

moi m

  1. May

See also

References

Murui Huitoto

moi
Root Classifier
moi- —

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moi and Nüpode Huitoto moi.

Pronunciation

Noun

moi

  1. rear

Declension

Declension of moi
singular plural
Absolutive moi —
Nominative moidɨ —
Accusative moina —
Dative/Locative moimo —
Ablative moimona —
Instrumental moido —
Causal moiri —
Privative moinino —

Root

moi

  1. rear

Derived terms

References

  • 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

Naga Pidgin

Etymology

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.

Pronoun

moi

  1. I (1st person singular pronoun)
    Synonym: ami

Nefamese

Etymology

inherited from Assamese মই (moi).

Pronoun

moi

  1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Tonic form of me, from Latin mē.

Pronoun

moi

  1. me

Usage notes

  • 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).

Related terms

Descendants

  • Middle French: moy

Polish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

moi

  1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mój

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

moi

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

Adjective

moi

  1. beautiful

Vietnamese

Etymology

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 cmɔːl ("to plant"). Compare mói (as in soi mói, from Proto-Vietic *c-mɔːlʔ).

Pronunciation

Verb

moi • (𫴱)

  1. to drag out, to dig out

Derived terms

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier con) moi

  1. a kind of sea shrimp
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