mony
See also: -mony
English edit
Noun edit
mony (countable and uncountable, plural monies)
- Obsolete form of money.
- 1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] J[ames] O[rme] for R[ichard] Wellington, […], and Sam[uel] Briscoe […], →OCLC, act III, page 30:
- Bell[inda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartfr[ee]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bell[inda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlyer got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.
Anagrams edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Uralic *muna. Cognates include Northern Mansi мӯӈи (mūňi) and Finnish muna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mony (plural monyok)
- (archaic, dialectal) Synonym of tojás (“egg”)
- (archaic, dialectal) Synonym of here (“testicle”)
- (archaic, dialectal) Synonym of hímvessző (“penis”)
Declension edit
Originally:
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | mony | monyak |
accusative | monyat | monyakat |
dative | monynak | monyaknak |
instrumental | monnyal | monyakkal |
causal-final | monyért | monyakért |
translative | monnyá | monyakká |
terminative | monyig | monyakig |
essive-formal | monyként | monyakként |
essive-modal | monyul | — |
inessive | monyban | monyakban |
superessive | monyon | monyakon |
adessive | monynál | monyaknál |
illative | monyba | monyakba |
sublative | monyra | monyakra |
allative | monyhoz | monyakhoz |
elative | monyból | monyakból |
delative | monyról | monyakról |
ablative | monytól | monyaktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
monyé | monyaké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
monyéi | monyakéi |
Possessive forms of mony | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | monyam | monyaim |
2nd person sing. | monyad | monyaid |
3rd person sing. | monya | monyai |
1st person plural | monyunk | monyaink |
2nd person plural | monyatok | monyaitok |
3rd person plural | monyuk | monyaik |
alternatively:
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | mony | monyok |
accusative | monyt | monyokat |
dative | monynak | monyoknak |
instrumental | monnyal | monyokkal |
causal-final | monyért | monyokért |
translative | monnyá | monyokká |
terminative | monyig | monyokig |
essive-formal | monyként | monyokként |
essive-modal | monyul | — |
inessive | monyban | monyokban |
superessive | monyon | monyokon |
adessive | monynál | monyoknál |
illative | monyba | monyokba |
sublative | monyra | monyokra |
allative | monyhoz | monyokhoz |
elative | monyból | monyokból |
delative | monyról | monyokról |
ablative | monytól | monyoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
monyé | monyoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
monyéi | monyokéi |
Possessive forms of mony | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | monyom | monyaim |
2nd person sing. | monyod | monyaid |
3rd person sing. | monya | monyai |
1st person plural | monyunk | monyaink |
2nd person plural | monyotok | monyaitok |
3rd person plural | monyuk | monyaik |
Derived terms edit
Compound words
Further reading edit
- mony in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Anagrams edit
Kari'na edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *mônɨ.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mony
- the inanimate singular invisible distal demonstrative pronoun; that (that I can’t see)
Inflection edit
Kari'na demonstratives
category | inanimate pronoun | animate pronoun | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
proximal | visible | ero | erokon | mose | mòsaro(n), mojan, mòsékonV |
invisible | eny | enykon | |||
medial | — | — | mòko | mòkaro(n) | |
distal | visible | moro | morokon | moky | mòkan, mókykonV |
invisible | mony | monykon | |||
anaphoric | iro | irokon | inoro | inaro(n), inorokonV | |
V. Venezuelan dialect. |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 53–54, 319
- 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), “monï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 297; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, ; Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[3], Paris, 1956, page 291
- Yamada, Racquel-María (2010), “mony”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume, University of Oregon, page 773
Middle English edit
Noun edit
mony
- Alternative form of moneye
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Determiner edit
mony
- many
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- 'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.
'Just an auld packman,' says he, 'nae name ye wad ken, but kin to mony gentle houses.'- (please add an English translation of this quotation)