different between mwa vs moi

English

Interjection

mwa

1. Alternative spelling of mwah

Noun

mwa (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of mwah

Anagrams

• MAW, Maw, WMA, awm, maw

Anguthimri

Noun

mwa

1. (Mpakwithi) fire

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French mois.

Noun

mwa

1. month

Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-?óa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a/

Verb

-mwa (infinitive kumwá)

1. drink
2. (of medicine or pills) swallow, consume

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -mwera

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moa/

Noun

mwa

1. house

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?Du?bea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mw?/

Interjection

mwa

1. (informal) An expression of indifference: meh

Adjective

mwa (not comparable)

1. (informal, predicative) mediocre

Usage notes

Occurs mainly as the complement of a copular verb such as zijn (“to be”) or vinden (“to find”).

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mois (“month”).

Noun

mwa

1. month

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French moi (“me”).

Pronoun

mwa (nominative mo)

1. me (first-person singular objective personal pronoun)

See also

Shona

Verb

-mwá (infinitive kumwá)

1. Karanga and Manyika form of -nwa

Swahili

Particle

mwa

1. Mu class inflected form of -a.

English

Etymology

From French moi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mw??/

Pronoun

moi

1. (humorous or sarcastic, often used questioningly to express mock surprise) Me.

Anagrams

• IMO, IOM, Imo, Mio, imo, omi

Abinomn

Noun

moi

1. land snake

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• main (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German m?n, form Old High German m?n, from Proto-West Germanic *m?n, from Proto-Germanic *m?naz (“my, mine”). Cognate with German mein, English mine.

Determiner

moi

1. (Luserna) my

References

• “moi” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?moi?/, [?mo?i?]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification: moi

Interjection

moi

1. hi, hello

Derived terms

• moikka

Anagrams

• omi

French

Etymology

From Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin m? (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)me-, *(h?)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 me, Corsican me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwa/
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /mwe/
• Homophone: mois

Pronoun

moi

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

Synonyms

• mézigue (argot)

Derived terms

• et moi donc

Related terms

Noun

moi m (uncountable)

1. ego

Derived terms

• non-moi

See also

• je
• me

Further reading

• “moi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mui, from muito (“very”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moj/

Adverb

moi

1. very

Derived terms

• moi logo

Related terms

• moito

References

• “mui” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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. R?maji transcription of ??

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

• (Gregorian calendar months) genner, hourneng, merz, oberel, moi, prochet, heibeger, agst, leistagst, schanmikeal, òlderhaileng, schantònderer ^{(Category: mhn:Gregorian calendar months)}

References

• “moi” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?i?]

Root

moi

1. rear

Derived terms

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

Naga Pidgin

Etymology

From Assamese ?? (moi)

Pronoun

moi

1. 1st person singular pronoun, I

   Synonym: ami

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Tonic form of me, from Latin m?.

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

• me
• jo

Descendants

• Middle French: moy
  • French: moi

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.i/

Pronoun

moi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mój

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moj]

Verb

moi

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

Adjective

moi

1. beautiful

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [m?j??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [m?j??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [m?j??]

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-m??l ~ mu?l (“digging stick”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *?muul ~ *?mu?l (“to dibble”); cognate with Bahnar j?mul (“to plant rice using dibble stick to make holes”) and Khmu c?m??l ("to plant"). Compare mói (as in soi mói, from Proto-Vietic *c-m??l?).

Verb

moi • (????)

1. to drag out, to dig out

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier con) moi

1. a kind of sea shrimp