mwy

mwy

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Mosiro.

From mw (“water”) +‎ -y.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muːiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: muy

1. (intransitive, of a wound) to be(come) watery, moist [Medical papyri]

• “mw.y (lemma ID 69220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 53.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 105

From Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Irish mó and Scottish Gaelic mò.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /muːɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mʊi̯/
• Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

mwy

1. comparative degree of mawr (“big, large”)

• mwy a mwy, mwyfwy (“more and more”)
• mwyad (“increase”, noun)
• (obsolete) mwyadur (“microsope”)
• mwyhau (“to increase”)

mwy

1. more

   Mae mwy o fwyd ar y bwrdd ’na.

   There is more food on that table.

mwy

1. Used to form comparative constructions with adjectives.

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “mwy”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mwy”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies