mo

mo

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Moldovan.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (US) enPR: mō, IPA^(key): /moʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

mo (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) To a greater degree.
2. (now dialectal) Further, longer.

mo (not comparable)

1. (archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
   • c. 1380, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     With that ran there a route of ratones at ones,

     And smale mys myd hem, mo then a thousande

   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Matthew xxij]:

     Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.

mo (plural mos)

1. Abbreviation of month.

mo (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of moment.

   Hang on a mo!

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

mo (plural mos)

1. (slang) A homosexual.

Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

mo (not comparable)

1. (dialectal, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of mo' (“more”)

   Yo, you got mo chips?

   • 1997, “Mo Money Mo Problems”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Ma$e & Diddy:

     I guess this mean mo money, mo problems for you?

Short for moustache.

mo (plural mos)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.

Clipping.

mo (plural mos)

1. (prison slang) A molester.
   • 2018, James Kühnel, Carceration State

     The Idaho prison is full of cho-mos (child molesters), mos (molesters), and all types of sexual predators that have engaged in some type of abnormal sexual acts.

• chomo

Clipping.

mo (plural mos)

1. (slang) A moron.
   • 1997, “Detox”, in City, performed by Strapping Young Lad:

     Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!

From mil, by analogy with do and gro.

mo

1. The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.

• do, gro

• O&M, O.M., OM, om

mo

1. (anatomy) stomach

mo

1. you

   I suɔ mo.

   I love you.

mo

1. ye, you (plural)

• mos

From Proto-Albanian *mē, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (a prohibitive particle).

mo (masculine adjectival i mo, feminine singular e mo, masculine plural të mo, feminine plural të moa)

1. don't

• ma, mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

mo m (Carcoforo)

1. man
2. husband

• 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

mo

1. speech, language, word

mo

1. mountain

• Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 157

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

From Proto-Mongolic *mör (“trail, path”), compare Mongolian мөр (mör, “road, path”).

• IPA^(key): /mo/, [mʷo]

mo

1. road, path

   nie fade bi zhin mo jiere yawuzhi saozhi wo.

   one time I was walking on the road.

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• IPA^(key): [mo]
• Hyphenation: mo

mo (accusative singular mo-on, plural mo-oj, accusative plural mo-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

From Old Irish mo, mu, from Proto-Celtic *moy, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)moy, clitic oblique case of *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): /mˠə/
• (Ulster, also) IPA^(key): /mˠa/[1]

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my

   mo bhád ― my boat

   mo mháthair ― my mother

2. me (direct object pronoun before verbal noun)

   Tá sé ag mo bhualadh ― He is hitting me

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “mo” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mo” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

mo

1. Alternative spelling of mo'

mo

1. Rōmaji transcription of も
2. Rōmaji transcription of モ

From Sanskrit मा (mā́), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (prohibitive particle). Cognate with Hindi मत (mat), Persian مـ‎ (ma-), Albanian mo.

mo

1. do not, don't (prohibitive particle)

• IPA^(key): [mo³³]

From Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Burmese -မ (-ma.).

mo

1. (Yao'an) female

• por
• bol

From Proto-Loloish *ma¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꂷ (ma), Naxi meel.

mo 

1. (Yao'an) bamboo

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

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo (first person singular, plural nouzòt, objective mò, possessive mô)

1. I.

• to
• li
• nou, no, nouzòt
• vouzòt, ouzòt, zòt, zo
• yé

• m'

mo (mo⁵ / mo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼／么, 麽／么, 么, 庅.

mo

1. Nonstandard spelling of mō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mò.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

mo

1. foot

• Roberto Escalante Hernández, Marciano Hernández, Matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan, Estado de México (1999)

From French moi (“me”).

mo (objective mwa)

1. I (first-person singular nominative personal pronoun)

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

Alternative spelling: mot.

• ma, moe

From Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /mɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

mo

1. more numerous; larger in amount
2. greater in quantity or intensity
3. additional, further, other (persons or things in addition to those mentioned)
4. higher in social status

mo

1. to a greater degree; more
2. longer, again, any more
3. besides, also, further, else

• most
• no mo

• English: mo

• “mō, adj..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “mō, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin mollis.

mo m

1. (Jersey) soft

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː/

mō

1. how

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Believed to be from the noun moe.

mo (neuter singular mo or mott, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

1. close, sultry

From Old Norse moðr.

• mod

mo (neuter singular mo, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

1. tired, weary

From Old Norse mór (“moor”).

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moer, definite plural moene)

1. moor, heath
2. (military) drill ground

From Old Norse moð.

mo n (definite singular moet, indefinite plural mo, definite plural moa or moene)

1. dust (e.g. sawdust)
2. chaff (e.g. from hay)

• “mo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse mór (“moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mōraz.

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moar, definite plural moane)

1. moor, heath
2. (military) drill ground

Perhaps from the noun moe m.

mo (neuter singular mo or mott, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

1. close, sultry

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.

• mod (alternative spelling)

mo (neuter singular mo, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

1. tired, weary

From Old Norse moð.

• mò (alternative spelling)

mo n (definite singular moet, indefinite plural mo, definite plural moa)

1. dust (e.g. sawdust)
2. chaff (e.g. from hay)

From German, originally moder.

mo

1. Used as an intensifier about loneliness

   Synonym: mutters

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mo

1. imperative of moa

• “mo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mò, Mo, om, óm

• mu
• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

From Proto-Celtic *moy, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)moy, clitic oblique case of *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d23

     Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.

     If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

mo m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

1. my (possessive; belong to 'me')

• Hyphenation: mo

mo (feminine ma)

1. Contraction of me o (“him/it to me”).

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

mo

1. for

From Old Irish mo. Cognates include Irish mo.

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my

• “mo” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC.

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mo

1. "inside" locative class suffix, "inside" of a definite place indicator

   watu wamo chumbani

   the people are inside the room

• po: definite place indicator
• ko: indefinite place indicator

mo c

1. sandy soil
2. a sandy field, a moor, a heath

• mosnäppa
• pinnmo
• morot

• om

• IPA^(key): /mo/, [mo]

mo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓ)

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

mo

1. for

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

mo • (𥷺, 𧄲)

1. spathe of the areca tree

Reduced form of ddim o (“not of, nothing of”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ/

mo (causes soft mutation)

1. (colloquial) negative particle used when immediately preceding the definite article or a definite noun phrase

   Fwytais i mo'r moron. ― I didn't eat the carrots.

   Wela i mo'r ffilm 'na. ― I will not see that film.

   Chlywoch chi mo Owain. ― You didn't hear Owain.

   Leician nhw mo wraig y dyn. ― They wouldn't like the man's wife.

Because this form is used only when directly in front of a definite object, it only appears in the (non-periphrastic) preterite, future and conditional tenses.

In front of a pronoun, mo has personal forms the same as the preposition o:

• dim, ddim (negative particle used in all other situations)

Does not mutate.

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. (transitive) to swallow
2. (transitive) to slurp up, to suck up

For the semantic development of the interjection, compare Spanish ya (“already; come on!”).

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. Alternative form of omo (“already”)

mo

1. come!
2. come on!

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. (stative) alternative form of mu (“ripe”)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

From Old Norse móðr (“emotion, anger,”) from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, whence also English mood. Influenced by French mode, from Latin modus. In the sense ’anger’ replaced by sinn. For the sense ’method’ compare me n.

• IPA^(key): /múː/, [mɯ́ᵝː] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -úːð

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -úː, -úːð

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -úːð, -úːr

mo n (definite singular mode or moe, plural mo)

1. (singular only) Spirit, love of life, optimism.
2. Way of behaving, mood.

   han hadd de mode

   he had that way

3. Fashion.
4. Method.

• modd
• moes
• morasam
• missmodd

Cognates include Swahili moja.

mo

1. one

This number follows a noun and takes the noun class characteristic prefix, e.g. libweta limo (one box). See the Yao language article on Wikipedia for details on noun class prefixes.

• mi (used in a negative sentence, or generally in some dialects)
• n (used in negative or future sentences, or with kí)

mo

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)