moai
English edit
Etymology edit
Rapa Nui mo'ai (“statue, figurine”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
moai (plural moai or moais)
- One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
- 2012, John Loret, John T. Tanacredi, Easter Island, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
- As the years passed, the Moais and Ahus became larger and larger, many with red scoria top crowns weighing as much as ten tons.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
stone statue on Easter Island
See also edit
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Mokilese edit
Noun edit
moai
- (fruit) breadfruit
Northern Sami edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Samic *monōj.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
moai
- we (two)
Inflection edit
Inflection of moai (irregular) | |
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Nominative | moai |
Genitive | munˈno |
Nominative | moai |
Genitive | munˈno |
Accusative | munˈno |
Illative | munˈnuide |
Locative | munˈnos |
Comitative | munˈnuin |
Essive | munˈnon |
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Personal pronouns | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
1st person | mun | moai | mii |
2nd person | don | doai | dii |
3rd person | son | soai | sii |
Further reading edit
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
moai m (plural moais)
- moai (type of stone statue on Easter Island)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
moai m (plural moais)
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Dutch mooi (“pretty, nice”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
moai
Inflection edit
Inflection of moai | ||||
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uninflected | moai | |||
inflected | moaie | |||
comparative | moaier | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | moai | moaier | it moaist it moaiste | |
indefinite | c. sing. | moaie | moaiere | moaiste |
n. sing. | moai | moaier | moaiste | |
plural | moaie | moaiere | moaiste | |
definite | moaie | moaiere | moaiste | |
partitive | moais | moaiers | — |
Further reading edit
“moai”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011