mo

mo

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Translingual

Symbol

mo

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

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
  • (US) enPR: mō, IPA(key): /moʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

Adverb

mo (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) To a greater degree.
  2. (now dialectal) Further, longer.

Adjective

mo (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)

Etymology 2

Noun

mo (plural mos)

  1. Abbreviation of month.
    Alternative forms: m, mo.

Etymology 3

Noun

mo (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of moment.
    Synonyms: bit, sec, tick; see also Thesaurus:moment

Etymology 4

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

  1. (slang) A homosexual.

Etymology 5

Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

Adjective

mo (not comparable)

  2. (dialectal, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of mo' (“more”).

Etymology 6

Clipping of moustache.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.

Etymology 7

Clipping.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

  1. (prison slang) A molester.
Related terms
  • chomo

Etymology 8

Clipping.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

  1. (slang) A moron.

Etymology 9

From mil, by analogy with do and gro.

Numeral

mo

  1. The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.

See also

  • do, gro

See also

Anagrams

  • O&M, O.M., OM, om

Abau

Particle

mo

  1. (emphatic) really, even
  2. marks the topic of the clause, sentence, or conversation
  3. marks the preceding plural NP as genitive (association or possession)
  4. indicates the interrogative

Adverb

mo

  1. indicates the negative

References

  • Abau Dictionary © 2020 SIL International (Available online: [2])

Abinomn

Noun

mo

  1. (anatomy) stomach

Adangme

Pronoun

mo

  1. you

Akan

Pronoun

mo

  1. ye, you (plural)

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • mos

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mē, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (a prohibitive particle).

Particle

mo (masculine adjectival i mo, feminine singular e mo, masculine plural të mo, feminine plural të moa)

  1. don't

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

  • ma, mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn

Etymology

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

Noun

mo m (Carcoforo)

  1. man
  2. husband

References

  • 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

Amanab

Noun

mo

  1. speech, language, word

Angguruk Yali

Noun

mo

  1. mountain

References

  • Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 157

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

  1. word

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/ [mo]

Adjective

mo

  1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *mör (“trail, path”), compare Mongolian мөр (mör, “road, path”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/

Noun

mo

  1. road, path

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: mo

Noun

mo (accusative singular mo-on, plural mo-oj, accusative plural mo-ojn)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoˣ/, [ˈmo̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification(key): mo
  • Hyphenation(key): mo

Interjection

mo

  1. (slang, colloquial) clipping of moi (“hi, hello”)

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mʊ]

Contraction

mo (plural mos, feminine singular ma, feminine plural mas)

  1. contraction of me o
    Damo! ― Give it to me!

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/

Noun

mo

  1. word

Irish

Alternative forms

  • m’ (used before vowel sounds)

Etymology

From Old Irish mo, mu; see there for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mˠə/
  • (Munster, also) IPA(key): /mˠɔ/
  • (Ulster, also) IPA(key): /mˠa/

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

  1. my
    mo bhád ― my boat
    mo mháthair ― my mother
  2. me (direct object pronoun before verbal noun)
    Tá sé ag mo bhualadh ― He is hitting me

See also

References

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mo”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
  • “mo”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

Alternative forms

  • mo'
  • mó (rare)
  • mò (misspelling)

Etymology

From Latin mox (“soon”) or Latin modo (“recently, just now”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmo/*
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: mó

(northern Italy) IPA(key): /mɔ/

Adverb

mo

  1. (archaic or Romanesco/southern Italian)
    1. (in the present) now
      Synonyms: ora, adesso
    2. (in the near future) soon, in a moment
      Synonyms: subito, tra poco
    3. (in the near past) recently, just now
      Synonyms: appena, poco fa
    4. (originally ironic) See da mo.
    5. (repeated) See mo mo.

Further reading

  • mo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Japanese

Romanization

mo

  1. The hiragana syllable も (mo) or the katakana syllable モ (mo) in Hepburn romanization.

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit मा (mā́), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (prohibitive particle). Cognate with Hindi मत (mat), Persian مـ (ma-), Albanian mo.

Particle

mo

  1. do not, don't (prohibitive particle)

Kamkata-viri

Etymology

From Common Nuristani *māi, probably an early borrowing of Middle Chinese 米 (mejX). Compare Ashkun mā, Tregami myä, Waigali mä.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmo/

Noun

mo (Kamviri)

  1. husked rice

References

Kapampangan

Etymology

From mu +‎ ya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈman/ [ˈmän]

Adverb

mo

  1. although; even if; even though
    Synonyms: agyang, man
  2. also; no matter what; and
    Synonyms: din, pati, agyaman
    Mipakananumo ― No matter what happens.
    Yakumo ― Me as well.
    Sinabianan nakung nanumo. ― S/he also told me something.

Derived terms

Pronoun

mo

  1. alternative spelling of mula
  2. alternative spelling of muya
  3. alternative spelling of mu
  4. alternative spelling of me

Lashi

Pronunciation

  • (Waingmaw) IPA(key): [mɔ˧˧]
  • (Chipwe) IPA(key): [mɔ˨˩]
  • (Mongko) IPA(key): [mɔ˥˧]
  • Hyphenation: mo

Postposition

mo

  1. from, away from

Derived terms

References

  • Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 30
  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 24

Latin

Noun

mo

  1. (Medieval Latin, historical) abbreviation of monētārius (moneyer, minter) in its various forms.

Lolopo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mo³³]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Burmese -မ (-ma.).

Suffix

mo

  1. (Yao'an) female
See also
  • por
  • bol

Etymology 2

From Proto-Loloish *ma¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꂷ (ma), Naxi meel.

Noun

mo 

  1. (Yao'an) bamboo

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably inherited from French "moi/mon".”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Homophone: mô

Pronoun

mo (first person singular, plural nouzòt, nou, no, objective mò, possessive determiner mô, possessive pronoun mokin, mochin)

  1. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)

Derived terms

  • (prevocalic) m'

Mandarin

Romanization

mo (mo5 / mo0, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄛ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼 / 么, 麽 / 么, 么, 庅

mo

  1. nonstandard spelling of mō
  2. nonstandard spelling of mó
  3. nonstandard spelling of mǒ
  4. nonstandard spelling of mò

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Matlatzinca

Noun

mo

  1. foot

References

  • Roberto Escalante Hernández, Marciano Hernández, Matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan, Estado de México (1999)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French moi (“me”).

Pronoun

mo (objective mwa)

  1. I (first-person singular nominative personal pronoun)
See also

Etymology 2

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

  1. word

Alternative spelling: mot.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • ma, moe

Etymology

From Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔː/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Adjective

mo

  1. more numerous; larger in amount
  2. greater in quantity or intensity
  3. additional, further, other (persons or things in addition to those mentioned)
  4. higher in social status

Adverb

mo

  1. to a greater degree; more
  2. longer, again, any more
  3. besides, also, further, else

Derived terms

  • most
  • no mo

Descendants

  • English: mo

References

  • “mō, adj..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “mō, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Latin mollis.

Adjective

mo m

  1. (Jersey) soft

Derived terms

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmoː/

Adverb

mō

  1. how

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Believed to be from the noun moe.

Adjective

mo (neuter singular mo or mott, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

  1. close, sultry

Etymology 2

From Old Norse moðr.

Alternative forms

  • mod

Adjective

mo (neuter singular mo, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

  1. tired, weary

Etymology 3

From Old Norse mór (“moor”).

Noun

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moer, definite plural moene)

  1. moor, heath
  2. (military) drill ground

Etymology 4

From Old Norse moð.

Noun

mo n (definite singular moet, indefinite plural mo, definite plural moa or moene)

  1. dust (e.g. sawdust)
  2. chaff (e.g. from hay)

References

  • “mo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mór (“moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mōraz.

Noun

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moar, definite plural moane)

  1. moor, heath
  2. (military) drill ground

Etymology 2

Perhaps from the noun moe m.

Adjective

mo (neuter singular mo or mott, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

  1. close, sultry

Etymology 3

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.

Alternative forms

  • mod (alternative spelling)

Adjective

mo (neuter singular mo, definite singular and plural mo or moe)

  1. tired, weary

Etymology 4

From Old Norse moð.

Alternative forms

  • mò (alternative spelling)

Noun

mo n (definite singular moet, indefinite plural mo, definite plural moa)

  1. dust (e.g. sawdust)
  2. chaff (e.g. from hay)

Etymology 5

From German, originally moder.

Adverb

mo

  1. Used as an intensifier about loneliness
    Synonym: mutters

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mo

  1. imperative of moa

References

  • “mo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • mò, Mo, om, óm

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • mu
  • m’ (used before vowel sounds)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mene, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁mene, genitive of *éǵh₂. The Goidelic forms came from *mene being remodelled into *mowe by analogy with *towe (“your”) (whence do (“your”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mo]

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

  1. my
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d23
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73d1

Descendants

  • Irish: mo
  • Scottish Gaelic: mo
  • Manx: my

References

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Occitan

Pronoun

mo m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

  1. my (possessive; belong to 'me')

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo

Contraction

mo (feminine ma)

  1. contraction of me o (“him/it to me”)

Réunion Creole French

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

  1. word

Samoan

Preposition

mo

  1. for

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mo. Cognates include Irish mo.

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

  1. my

See also

References

  • “mo” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-mo

  1. present stem of -wamo (“to be (inside there)”)
    wamo ― they are inside

See also

  • -mo: verbal affix
  • -wapo (“to be (at a definite place)”)
  • -wako (“to be (at an indefinite place)”)

Swedish

Noun

mo c

  1. sandy soil
  2. a sandy field, a moor, a heath

Declension

Derived terms

  • mosnäppa
  • pinnmo
  • morot

Anagrams

  • om

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-mu (2sg. possessor and agent of passive verb). Compare Malay -mu.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /mo/ [mo]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: mo

Adjective

mo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓ)

  1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

See also

Further reading

  • “mo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-mu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Tuvaluan

Preposition

mo

  1. for

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Compare Tày bo, which suggests previous *ɓ-.

Noun

mo • (𥷺, 謨)

  1. (botany) spathe of the areca tree
    quạt mo ― a fan made from areca spathes
Derived terms
  • mặt mo

Etymology 2

Of Tai origin, compare Thai หมอ (mɔ̌ɔ).

Noun

mo

  1. short for thầy mo

Welsh

Etymology

Reduced form of ddim o (“not of, nothing of”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ/

Particle

mo (causes soft mutation)

  1. (colloquial) negative particle used when immediately preceding the definite article or a definite noun phrase
    Fwytais i mo'r moron. ― I didn't eat the carrots.
    Wela i mo'r ffilm 'na. ― I will not see that film.
    Chlywoch chi mo Owain. ― You didn't hear Owain.
    Leician nhw mo wraig y dyn. ― They wouldn't like the man's wife.

Usage notes

Because this form is used only when directly in front of a definite object, it only appears in the (non-periphrastic) preterite, future and conditional tenses.

In front of a pronoun, mo has personal forms the same as the preposition o:

See also

  • dim, ddim (negative particle used in all other situations)

Mutation

Does not mutate.

West Makian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/

Verb

mo

  1. (transitive) to swallow
  2. (transitive) to slurp up, to suck up
Conjugation

Etymology 2

For the semantic development of the interjection, compare Spanish ya (“already; come on!”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/

Adverb

mo

  1. alternative form of omo (“already”)

Interjection

mo

  1. come!
  2. come on!

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/

Verb

mo

  1. (stative) alternative form of mu (“ripe”)
Conjugation

References

  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[7], Pacific linguistics
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[8], Pacific linguistics

Yao

Etymology

Cognates include Swahili moja.

Numeral

mo

  1. one

Usage notes

This number follows a noun and takes the noun class characteristic prefix, e.g. libweta limo (one box). See the Yao language article on Wikipedia for details on noun class prefixes.

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • mi (used in a negative sentence, or generally in some dialects)
  • n (used in negative or future sentences, or with kí)

Pronoun

mo

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

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