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moan

See also: möän and Moan

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”).

Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.

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Noun edit

moan (plural moans)

  1. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
    let out a deep moan
    We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.

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Verb edit

moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
  2. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]
  3. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]
    She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
  4. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]
    ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
  5. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th–17th c.]

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of moan
infinitive (to) moan
present tense past tense
1st-person singular moan moaned
2nd-person singular moan, moanest† moaned, moanedst†
3rd-person singular moans, moaneth† moaned
plural moan
subjunctive moan moaned
imperative moan —
participles moaning moaned

†Archaic or obsolete.

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Breton edit

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Etymology edit

From Middle Breton moen, from Old Breton moin, from Proto-Brythonic *muɨn (“beautiful”). Compare Welsh mwyn (“mild, gentle”)), Irish maoin (“property, riches”)), Latin mūnis (“obliging”), Old English mǣne (“common”)).

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Adjective edit

moan

  1. thin, slender
    Synonym: tanav
    Antonym: tev

Mutation edit

  Mutation of moan  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard
simple form moan voan never occurs never occurs
comparative moanoc'h voanoc'h never occurs never occurs
superlative moanañ voanañ unchanged unchanged
exclamative moanat voanat unchanged unchanged

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Noun edit

moan

  1. genitive singular of moa

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Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

moan

  1. Alternative form of mawen
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 1:
      A moan vrim a Bearlough an anoor vrim a Baak,
      A woman from the Bearlough and another from the Beak,
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 7:
      Shu ztaared an shu ztudied hi near parshagh moan,
      She stared and she studied by the other passive woman,
    • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 1:
      Billeen Scalaane an hys yola moan,
      Billy Scallan and his old woman,

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English mone, from Old English mān, from Proto-West Germanic *mainu.

Noun edit

moan

  1. moan
    • 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 1:
      Ochone! to fo shul Ich maak mee moan,
      Ochone, to whom shall I make my moan,

References edit

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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