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.

• 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

Unknown. The word has been traditionally compared with moro, suggesting a connection with Swedish morgon, but similar expressions are also found in other European and particularly Germanic languages, such as German Low German moin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoi̯/, [ˈmo̞i̯]

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

moi

1. hi, hello

• moikka

• omi

• moé (Quebec, colloquial)

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 and Old 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.

• IPA^(key): [mɔi̯]

moi

1. rear

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

From Assamese মই (moi).

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

   Synonym: ami

• 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]

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