moa

Borrowed from Maori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).

moas

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒʌ/, /ˈmoə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊə/

moa (plural moas)

1. Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford 2000, p. 29:

     The moas (order Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand are likewise extinct but almost certainly some still survived when Tasman first sighted the islands in 1642.

• -oma, Amo, Amo., MAO, Mao, mao, oma

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɑ/, [ˈmo̞ɑ]

moa

1. moa

• oma

• mó

From Medieval Galician proper moa, from Latin mola (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind”). Cognate of Portuguese mó and of Spanish muela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔa̝/

moa f (plural moas)

1. molar
2. millstone
3. grindstone
   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, page 295:

     que lle quebrantaron duas moas de moer ferramenta, que sían armadas et encabalgadas

     that they broke two grindstones used for sharpening tools, that were framed and mounted

4. whetstone
5. heap
6. gizzard

• (molar): molar
• (millstone): capa, pedra
• (gizzard): moella

• moer
• muíño

• “moa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “moa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “moa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.a/, [ˈmowə]

moa

1. chicken or similar fowl

moa

1. Rōmaji transcription of モア

From Proto-Finnic *maa.

moa

1. earth
2. ground
3. land

moa

1. eel

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

moa

1. moa a bird (extinct, Dinornis)

• → English: moa

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

moa

1. chicken

moa f (plural moas)

1. moa (large, extinct flightless bird of New Zealand)

moa

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of moer
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of moer
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of moer
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of moer

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

moa

1. chicken

• hare moa

From Proto-Polynesian *moa.

moa

1. chicken or similar fowl

• fuāmoa

From English more.

moa

1. more

Borrowed from French moi (“me”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mwaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mwaː˧˧]

moa

1. (obsolete, humorous) I; me

• tôi