See also: mòky

English

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Etymology

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Compare Icelandic mökkvi (cloud, mist), mökkr (a dense cloud), Welsh mwg (smoke), and English muggy, muck.

Adjective

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moky (comparative more moky, superlative most moky)

  1. (obsolete) misty; dark; murky

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for moky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Kari'na

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Apalaí moky, Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Ye'kwana mökkü.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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moky

  1. the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that yonder, that over there

Inflection

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References

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  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 53–54, 318
  • Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mokë”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 296; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[3], Paris, 1956, page 289
  • Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “moky”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume[4], University of Oregon, page 773