Wiktionary

moi

See also: Moi, MOI, möi, mọi, mới, mỗi, mo'i, mōʻī, and мои

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French moi.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /mwɑː/
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PronounEdit

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.

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AbinomnEdit

NounEdit

moi

  1. land snake

CimbrianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

DeterminerEdit

moi

  1. (Luserna) my
    Moi pruadar Sèpp hatt 9 djar. ― My brother Joe is nine years old.

ReferencesEdit

  • “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

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoi̯/, [ˈmo̞i̯]
  • Audio
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  • Rhymes: -oi
  • Syllabification: moi

InterjectionEdit

moi

  1. hi, hello

Derived termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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 me, Corsican me.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

moi

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

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

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French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Locative
(at) 		Genitive
(of) 		Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
Second — tu te, t’ — — toi
Third Masculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Indeterminate on1 — — — — —
Reflexive — se, s’4 — — soi4
Plural First — nous nous — — nous
Second — vous2 vous2,3 — — vous2
Third Masculine ils3 les leur y en eux3
Feminine elles elles
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.

NounEdit

moi m (uncountable)

  1. ego

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Further readingEdit

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

moi

  1. very

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “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.

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

moi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of もい

Murui HuitotoEdit

PronunciationEdit

RootEdit

moi

  1. rear

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

MòchenoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German meie, from Old High German meio, from Latin Maius. Cognate with German Mai.

NounEdit

moi m

  1. May

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

Naga PidginEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Assamese মই (moi)

PronounEdit

moi

  1. 1st person singular pronoun, I
    Synonym: ami

Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

Tonic form of me, from Latin mē.

PronounEdit

moi

  1. me

Usage notesEdit

  • 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 termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle French: moy

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

moi

  1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mój

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

moi

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

Sranan TongoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

AdjectiveEdit

moi

  1. beautiful

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

EtymologyEdit

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).

VerbEdit

moi • (𫴱)

  1. to drag out, to dig out

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

NounEdit

(classifier con) moi

  1. a kind of sea shrimp
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