See also: móyá

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Etymology edit

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Noun edit

moya (countable and uncountable, plural moyas)

  1. (obsolete, geology) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [from 1800s–1930s]
    • 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:
      These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.

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Buruwai edit

Noun edit

moya

  1. water

Further reading edit

Fanagalo edit

Etymology edit

From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (life, spirit).

Noun edit

moya

  1. air
  2. wind

Lala (South Africa) edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (life, spirit).

Noun edit

môya

  1. wind

Northern Sotho edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (life, spirit).

Noun edit

moya

  1. wind

Rawang edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

moya

  1. colour.

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Sotho edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (life, spirit).

Noun edit

moya class 3 (uncountable)

  1. wind

Tsonga edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (life, spirit).

Noun edit

moya class 3

  1. wind