muy
See also: muþ
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muy (not comparable)
- (informal, US, chiefly in Latin-American contexts) Very.
- 1995 November 30, Drema Crist, Janette Park, Marc Sorace, “Last-Second Sound Bites”, in The Chronicle, Duke University:
- Spacehog are a perfectly nice band, with pleasantly strummed guitars, a crisp pop sensibility, and muy cute vocals on this side of awkward, but after Blur, Ride, Lush, Oasis, Stone Roses, Elastica, and what have you, Resident Alien is just the proverbial straw on this overworked and overbroke camel's back.
- 2007 June 9, John Lannert, “Crossover King”, in Billboard:
- But such is the case with Enrique Iglesias, the muy handsome son of Julio, who is known to his fans these days simply as Enrique.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:muy.
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muy
- Alternative form of amuy
References edit
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
- Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1991. El vocabulario mosco de 1612. En estudios de Lingüística Chibcha. Programa de investigación del departamento de lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Serie Anual Tomo X San José (Costa Rica). Universidad de Costa Rica.
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Etymology edit
From muito, from Latin multus (“much, many”).
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muy (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מויי)
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muy
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish muito, from Latin multus (“much, many”).
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muy
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- “muy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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muy
- (intransitive) to climb
References edit
- Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.