moi
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moi
- (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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moi
Cimbrian edit
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Etymology edit
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 edit
moi
References edit
- 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
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
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]
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moi
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- “moi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (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
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French edit
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- moé (Quebec, colloquial)
Etymology edit
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.
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moi
- me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
- to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)
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- mézigue (argot)
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Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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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.
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moi m (uncountable)
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Further reading edit
- “moi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
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).
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moi
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- “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.
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moi
Mòcheno edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German meie, from Old High German meio, from Latin Maius. Cognate with German Mai.
Noun edit
moi m
See also edit
- (Gregorian calendar months) genner, hourneng, merz, oberel, moi, prochet, heibeger, agst, leistagst, schanmikeal, òlderhaileng, schantònderer (Category: mhn:Gregorian calendar months)
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- “moi” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Murui Huitoto edit
moi | |
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Root | Classifier |
moi- | — |
Etymology edit
Cognates include Minica Huitoto moi and Nüpode Huitoto moi.
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moi
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moi
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- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[2] (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.[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127
Naga Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
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.
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moi
Nefamese edit
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inherited from Assamese মই (moi).
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moi
- I (1st person singular pronoun)
Old French edit
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Tonic form of me, from Latin mē.
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moi
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- 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 :
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moi
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moi
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moi
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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 [Cuang] cmɔːl ("to plant"). Compare mói (as in soi mói, from Proto-Vietic *c-mɔːlʔ).
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(classifier con) moi