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 , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Possibly from Danish mojn.

moi

1. (dialectal) hi, hello

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/,

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• Rhymes: -oi
• Hyphenation^(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 , 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mui”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “moi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “moi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moi”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /mɔɪ/ (Austria)

moi

1. (Austria, colloquial) aw (Used to express affection.)

   Moi, ist der Hase süß! ― Aw, what a cute rabbit!

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.

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• 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 (maï, “by me”), 𑖦𑖺𑖊 (moe), from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀇 (maï, “by me”), 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (máyā, “by me”).

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

   Synonym: ami

inherited from Assamese মই (moi).

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

• mei (Föhr-Amrum)
• Mai (Sylt)

moi m

1. (Mooring) Synonym of krölemoune

• 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

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moi

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

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

moi

1. beautiful

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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).

moi • (𫴱)

1. to drag out, to dig out

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier con) moi

1. (Central Vietnam) small shrimps of the genus Acetes

   Synonym: ruốc