mo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (US) enPR: mō, IPA^(key): /moʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

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

mo (not comparable)

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

mo (not comparable)

1. (archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXII:

     Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.

   • c. 1380, William Langland, Piers Plowman

     With that ran there a route of ratones at ones,

     And smale mys myd hem, mo then a thousande

Abbreviation of month.

mo (plural mos)

1. (abbreviation) month

Clipping of moment.

mo (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) moment

   Hang on a mo!

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

mo (plural mos)

1. (slang) a homosexual

Clipping of more, non-rhotic dialects, notably African American Vernacular English. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

• mo'

mo (not comparable)

1. (slang) more

   Yo, you got mo chips?

   • 1997, Notorious B.I.G., Mo Money Mo Problems

moustache + -o

mo (plural mos)

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

Clipping.

mo (plural mos)

1. (prison slang) A molester.
   • 2018, James Kühnel, Carceration State

     The Idaho prison is full of cho-mos (child molesters), mos (molesters), and all types of sexual predators that have engaged in some type of abnormal sexual acts.

• chomo

• O.M., OM, om

mo

1. (anatomy) stomach

mo

1. you

   I suɔ mo.

   I love you.

• mos

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

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

1. don't

• ma, mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn

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).

mo m (Carcoforo)

1. man
2. husband

• “mo” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

mo

1. speech, language, word

mo

1. mountain

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

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

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

• IPA^(key): /mo/, [mʷo]

mo

1. road, path

   nie fade bi zhin mo jiere yawuzhi saozhi wo.

   one time I was walking on the road.

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• IPA^(key): /mo/
• Hyphenation: mo

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

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

• (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

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

From Old Irish mo, mu, from Proto-Celtic *moy, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)moy, clitic oblique case of *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): /mˠə/

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

• "mo" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “mo” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mo” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

mo

1. Alternative spelling of mo'

mo

1. Rōmaji transcription of も
2. Rōmaji transcription of モ

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

mo

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

mo

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From French moi (“me”).

mo (objective mwa)

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

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

Alternative spelling: mot.

From Latin mollis.

mo m

1. (Jersey) soft

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː/

mō

1. how

• Álgu database

Believed to be from the noun moe.

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

1. close, sultry

From Old Norse moðr.

• mod

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

1. tired, weary

From Old Norse mór (“moor”)

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

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

From Old Norse moð.

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

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

• “mo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Believed to be from the noun moe.

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

1. close, sultry

From Old Norse moðr.

• mod

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

1. tired, weary

From Old Norse mór (“moor”).

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

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

From Old Norse moð.

• mò

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

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

• “mo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mo m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

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

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

mo

1. for

From Old Irish mo, mu.

mo

1. my, mine

• Lenites the following word.

  mo + baile =

  mo bhaile ― my town

• Takes the form m' before words beginning with a vowel:
  m' ainm ― my name
  .

mo c

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

• mosnäppa
• pinnmo
• morot

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

mo

1. for

From Old Norse móðr (“emotion, anger,”) from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, whence also English mood. Influenced by French mode, from Latin modus. In the sense ’anger’ replaced by sinn. For the sense ’method’ compare me n.

• IPA^(key): /múː/, [mɯ́ᵝː] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -úːð

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -úː, -úːð

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -úːð, -úːr

mo n (definite singular mode or moe, plural mo)

1. (singular only) Spirit, love of life, optimism.
2. Way of behaving, mood.

   han hadd de mode

   he had that way

3. Fashion.
4. Method.

• modd
• moes
• morasam
• missmodd

Cognates include Swahili moja.

mo

1. (cardinal) one

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.