moi

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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!

• IMO, IOM, Mio, imo, omi

moi

1. land snake

Unknown. The word has been traditionally compared with moro, suggesting a connection with Swedish morgon, but similar expressions are also found in other European and particularly Germanic languages, such as Low German Moin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoi̯/, [ˈmo̞i̯]

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• Rhymes: -oi
• Hyphenation: moi

moi

1. hi, hello

• moikka

• omi

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

See cognates in regional languages in France : Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè, Bourguignon moi, Franco-Provençal mè, Occitan me, Corsican me.

• IPA^(key): /mwa/

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• Homophone: mois

moi

1. me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
2. to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)

• mézigue (argot)

moi m (uncountable)

1. ego

• non-moi

• je
• me

• “moi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mui, from muito (“very”).

• IPA^(key): /moj/

moi

1. very

• moi logo

• moito

• “mui” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “moi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “moi” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

moi

1. Rōmaji transcription of もい

From Assamese মই (moi)

moi

1. 1st person singular pronoun, I

   Synonym: ami

• 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/

moi

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of mój

Borrowed from Dutch mooi.

moi

1. beautiful

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

From Proto-Vietic *-mɔːl ~ muəl (“digging stick”). Compare mói (as in soi mói).

moi (𫴱)

1. to drag out, to dig out

(classifier con) moi

1. a kind of sea shrimp