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moin

See also: Moin, móin, môin, and möin

Bavarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle High German mālen, from Old High German mālōn, mālēn, denominative of māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mālijan, from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“dark color”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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moin (past participle gmoit) (Central Bavarian)

  1. (intransitive) to paint (do paintwork)
  2. (transitive or intransitive) to paint (create a painting)
  3. (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of moin
infinitive moin
present tense past tense subjunctive
1st person sing. moi - målad
2nd person sing. moist - måladst
3rd person sing. moit - målad
1st person plur. moin - måladn
2nd person plur. moits - målats
3rd person plur. moin - måladn
imperative sing. moi
imperative plur. moits
past participle gmoit

Derived terms

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Bourguignon

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Etymology

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From Latin manus.

Noun

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moin f (plural moins)

  1. hand

Finnish

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Noun

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moin

  1. instructive plural of moa

Anagrams

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From, or from the same source as, German Low German moin, beyond which the etymology is not clear; see that entry for more.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɔːɪn/, /mɔːɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːɪn

Interjection

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moin

  1. (colloquial, originally Northern Germany, nautical) hi

Usage notes

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Increasingly used outside of Northern Germany.

Further reading

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German Low German

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Etymology

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The etymology is not clear.

  • It stems possibly from moi, moie, moien (“nice, bright, shiny”), from Middle Low German [Term?], thus meaning would be '(have a) good one'. This would explain the pronunciation with /ŋ/ in some areas, which would stem from regular inflection of Low German moi.
  • It is also possible that this word is a borrowing from a Frisian language, which would explain the vowel sequence /ɔːɪ/, which does not naturally occur in almost any Low German dialect.
  • Further, many sources say that the word comes from the Berlin area, representing the local pronunciation of German Morgen (“morning”): [mɔɐ̯jɘn].[1][2] The pronunciation would come either from local Low German (where the word was pronounced [mɔrʝɘn]) and then have undergone r-vocalisation, or from early modern Upper Saxonian (/mɔˤjən/ or something similar), which is the German dialect that initially replaced Low German in Berlin. The word was understood as 'moin' by the rhotic dialects surrounding the city and spread north from them.
  • Should this word be a West Frisian or Berlinian borrowing, it is likely that it was later conflated with the Low German word moi (/moːɪ/).
  • A descent, at least partially, from a lost West Slavic dialect has also been hypothesized.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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moin

  1. (informal) hi

Descendants

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  • → Saterland Frisian: moin
  • → Kashubian: mòjn

References

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  1. ^ Br. v. Braunthal, Berliner Conversation. In den Akademiesälen, in: Berliner Conversations-Blatt für Poesie, Literatur und Kritik. Zweiter Jahrgang, 1828, p. 799ff.
  2. ^ Willy Lademann: Wörterbuch der Teltower Volkssprache (Telschet Wöderbuek), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956

Kairiru

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Noun

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moin

  1. woman

Further reading

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  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
  • Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

North Frisian

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Etymology

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From German Low German moin. Cognate to Kashubian mòjn.

Interjection

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moin

  1. (informal) hi

Saterland Frisian

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Saterland Frisian phrasebook
 This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Low German moin. Cognate to Kashubian mòjn.

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Interjection

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moin!

  1. hi! hello!

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “moin”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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