moi

From French moi.

• IPA^(key): /mwɑː/

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• Homophone: mwah
• Rhymes: -ɑː

moi

1. (humorous or sarcastic, often used questioningly to express mock surprise) Me.

   Don't you be so cheeky. — Cheeky? Moi?

   Who'd have thought that such a thing would happen to little old moi!

   • 2000 April 30, John Swartzwelder, “Kill the Alligator and Run”, in The Simpsons, season 11, episode 19:

     Kid Rock: Yo, let's waste that biotch. / Homer: Biotch? Moi?

   • 2011, Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets, spoken by Miss Piggy:

     There's only one Miss Piggy, and she is moi.

• culte du moi
• ménage à moi

• IMO, IOM, Imo, Mio, imo, omi

moi

1. land snake
2. paternal grandfather

• main (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German mīn, from Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”). Cognate with German mein, English mine.

moi

1. (Luserna) my

   Moi pruadar Sèpp hatt 9 djar. ― My brother Joe is nine years old.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Possibly from Danish mojn.

moi

1. (dialectal) hi, hello

From Low German; see German Low German moin. Has also been compared with moro, suggesting a connection with Swedish morgon, but this is now considered unlikely.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoi̯/, [ˈmo̞i̯]

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• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): moi
• Hyphenation^(key): moi

moi

1. hi, hello

• “moi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• omi

• moé (Quebec, colloquial)

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me.

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.

• IPA^(key): /mwa/

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• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /mwe/
• Homophone: mois

moi

1. me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun)

   L'État, c'est moi.

   I am the State.

   Lui et moi sommes américains.

   He and I are American.

   Ce n'est pas à moi

   It's not mine

2. me (first-person singular object pronoun of imperative verbs)

   Donne-moi ça !

   Give me that!

Disjunctive or tonic pronouns are the default form of personal pronouns in French, used wherever clitic subject and object pronouns don't apply. Namely:

• As the object of a preposition:

  C'est pour moi ?

  is it for me?

• As the predicate of copular verbs (including cleft sentences):

  C'est moi !

  It's me!

  C'est moi qui ai raison et c'est toi qui as tord.

  I am right and you are wrong.

• In dislocation:

  Moi, je ne sais pas.

  Personally, I don't know.

  Moi, on ne m'en a pas parlé.

  Nobody told me about it.

• As part of a bigger substantival phrase :

  Mon frère et moi habitons à Londres.

  My brother and I live in London.

  Ni toi, ni moi ne savons où il se trouve.

  Neither you nor I know where he is.

• In isolation:

  — Qui veut une glace ? — Moi !

  — Who wants ice cream? — Me!

Moi and toi are also used as enclitic objects of imperative verbs, whereas other object pronouns keep the same form as their clitic form.

Regardez-moi!

Look at me!

When the imperative is negated, the regular object pronouns me and te are used and placed before the verb.

Ne me regardez pas!

Don't look at me!

• mézigue (argot)

• à moi
• et moi donc
• moi-même

moi m (uncountable)

1. ego

• non-moi

• je
• me

• “moi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese moi, mui, from moito, muito (“very”) (moi is exclusively used by Galician authors and in the Cantigas de Santa Maria).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoj/ [ˈmoj]
• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: moi

moi

1. apocopic form of moito (“very”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mui”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “moi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “moi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moi”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /mɔɪ/ (Austria)

moi

1. (Austria, colloquial) aw (Used to express affection.)

   Moi, ist der Hase süß! ― Aw, what a cute rabbit!

moi

1. Rōmaji transcription of もい

From Middle High German meie, from Old High German meio, from Latin Maius. Cognate with German Mai.

moi m

1. May

• “moi” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Cognates include Minica Huitoto moi and Nüpode Huitoto moi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔi]
• Hyphenation: moi

moi

1. rear

moi

1. rear

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 178
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

Inherited from Assamese মই (moi), from Early Assamese মঞি (moñi), মই (moi), Kamarupi Prakrit 𑖦𑖂 (maï, “by me”), 𑖦𑖺𑖊 (moe), from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀇 (maï, “by me”), 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (máyā, “by me”).

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

   Synonym: ami

inherited from Assamese মই (moi).

moi

1. I (1st person singular pronoun)

• mei (Föhr-Amrum)
• Mai (Sylt)

moi m

1. (Mooring) synonym of krölemoune

• mei (early Old French or Anglo-Norman)
• mi (early Old French)

Tonic form of me, from Latin mē.

moi

1. me

• Similar in terms of usage to modern French moi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use me :

  ele se paine de moi ocire (modern French uses me tuer or m'occire).

• me
• jo

• Middle French: moy
  • French: moi

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɔi
• Syllabification: mo‧i

moi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mój

• IPA^(key): [moj]

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moi

1. first/second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of muia

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

moi

1. beautiful

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɔj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɔj˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *-mɔːl ~ muəl (“digging stick”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟmuul ~ *ɟmuəl (“to dibble”); cognate with Bahnar jơmul (“to plant rice using dibble stick to make holes”) and Khmu [Cuang] cmɔːl ("to plant"). Compare mói (as in soi mói, from Proto-Vietic *c-mɔːlʔ).

moi • (𫴱)

1. to drag out, to dig out

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(classifier con) moi

1. (Central Vietnam) kind of small shrimp of the genus Acetes

   Synonyms: ruốc, khuyết