moya
See also: móyá
English edit
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)
- (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.
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- “moya”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “moya”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Buruwai edit
Noun edit
moya
Further reading edit
- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
Fanagalo edit
Etymology edit
From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).
Noun edit
moya
Lala (South Africa) edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).
Noun edit
môya
Northern Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).
Noun edit
moya
Rawang edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
moya
Synonyms edit
Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).
Noun edit
moya class 3 (uncountable)
Tsonga edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).
Noun edit
moya class 3