mou
AiwooEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mou
- dark grue (dark green, dark blue)
ReferencesEdit
- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
AsturianEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mou
- third-person singular present indicative form of moure
- second-person singular imperative form of moure
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French mol, inherited from Latin mollis, mollem, from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)moldus (“soft, weak”), from *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mou (masculine singular before vowel mol, feminine singular molle, masculine plural mous, feminine plural molles)
- soft, pliable
- (informal) pansy, spineless
- Quelle bande de couilles molles!
- What a bunch of pansy (ass) wimps!
- Quelle bande de couilles molles!
NounEdit
mou m (plural mous)
Further readingEdit
- “mou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
mou
- Nonstandard spelling of mōu.
- Nonstandard spelling of móu.
- Nonstandard spelling of mǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of mòu.
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.