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Definitions and meaning of mo
mo
Translingual
Symbol
mo
(international standards, obsolete)Former ISO 639-1 language code for Moldovan.
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
(US) enPR: mō, IPA(key): /moʊ/
Rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishmo, from Old Englishmā, from Proto-Germanic*maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European*meh₂-. Cognate with Swedishmer, Danishmer; and with Irishmó, Albanianmë. See also more, most.
Adverb
mo (not comparable)
(obsolete) To a greater degree.
(now dialectal) Further, longer.
Adjective
mo (not comparable)
(archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
Etymology 2
Noun
mo (pluralmos)
Abbreviation of month.
Alternative forms:m, mo.
Etymology 3
Noun
mo (uncountable)
(colloquial)Clipping of moment.
Etymology 4
Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.
Noun
mo (pluralmos)
(slang) A homosexual.
Etymology 5
Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo'(“for; four”), ho(“whore”).
Adjective
mo (not comparable)
(dialectal, African-American Vernacular)Alternative form of mo'(“more”)
Etymology 6
Short for moustache.
Noun
mo (pluralmos)
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.
Etymology 7
Clipping.
Noun
mo (pluralmos)
(prison slang) A molester.
Related terms
chomo
Etymology 8
Clipping.
Noun
mo (pluralmos)
(slang) A moron.
Etymology 9
From mil, by analogy with do and gro.
Numeral
mo
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
Abinomn
Noun
mo
(anatomy) stomach
Adangme
Pronoun
mo
you
Akan
Pronoun
mo
ye, you (plural)
Albanian
Alternative forms
mos
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian*mē, from Proto-Indo-European*meh₁(a prohibitive particle).
From Middle High Germanman, from Old High Germanman, from Proto-Germanic*mann-. Cognate with GermanMann, Dutchman, Englishman, Icelandicmaður, Swedishman, Gothic𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰(manna).
Noun
mom(Carcoforo)
man
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
speech, language, word
Angguruk Yali
Noun
mo
mountain
References
Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 157
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From Frenchmot(“word”).
Noun
mo
word
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mo/, [mo]
Adjective
mo
second person singular possessive adjective; your
Dongxiang
Etymology
From Proto-Mongolic*mör(“trail, path”), compare Mongolianмөр(mör, “road, path”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mo/
Noun
mo
road, path
Esperanto
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [mo]
Hyphenation: mo
Noun
mo (accusative singularmo-on, pluralmo-oj, accusative pluralmo-ojn)
The name of the Latin-script letter 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
Galician
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [mʊ]
Contraction
mo (pluralmos, feminine singularma, feminine pluralmas)
Contraction of me o.
Damo! ― Give it to me!
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From Frenchmot(“word”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mo/
Noun
mo
word
Irish
Alternative forms
m’(used before vowel sounds)
Etymology
From Old Irishmo, mu; see there for more.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mˠə/
(Munster, also) IPA(key): /mˠɔ/
(Ulster, also) IPA(key): /mˠa/
Determiner
mo (triggers lenition)
my
mo bhád ― my boat
mo mháthair ― my mother
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
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.
Italian
Alternative forms
mo'
mó(rare)
mò(misspelling)
Etymology
From Latinmox(“soon”) or Latinmodo(“recently, just now”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmo/*
Rhymes: -o
Hyphenation: mó
Adverb
mo(central-southern Italy or archaic)
present. now
Synonyms:ora, adesso
near future. soon, in a moment
Synonyms:subito, tra poco
near past. recently, just now
Synonyms:appena, poco fa
(originally ironic)See da mo.
(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
Rōmaji transcription of も
Rōmaji transcription of モ
Kalasha
Etymology
From Sanskritमा(mā́), from Proto-Indo-European*meh₁(prohibitive particle). Cognate with Hindiमत(mat), Persianمـ(ma-), Albanianmo.
Particle
mo
do not, don't (prohibitive particle)
Kapampangan
Etymology
From mu + ya. Compare Japanese も(mo).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈman/, [ˈmän]
Adverb
mo
although; even if; even though
Synonyms:agyang, man
also; no matter what
Synonyms:din, pati, agyaman
Derived terms
Latin
Noun
mo
(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
(Yao'an) female
See also
por
bol
Etymology 2
From Proto-Loloish*ma¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosuꂷ(ma), Naximeel.
Noun
mo
(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, pluralnouzòt, nou, no, objectivemò, possessive determinermô, possessive pronounmokin, mochin)
I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
Derived terms
(prevocalic)m'
Mandarin
Romanization
mo (mo5/mo0, Zhuyin˙ㄇㄛ)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼/么, 麽/么, 么, 庅
mo
Nonstandard spelling of mō.
Nonstandard spelling of mó.
Nonstandard spelling of mǒ.
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
foot
References
Roberto Escalante Hernández, Marciano Hernández, Matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan, Estado de México (1999)
Mauritian Creole
Etymology 1
From Frenchmoi(“me”).
Pronoun
mo (objectivemwa)
I (first-person singular nominative personal pronoun)
See also
Etymology 2
From Frenchmot(“word”).
Noun
mo
word
Alternative spelling: mot.
Middle English
Alternative forms
ma, moe
Etymology
From Old Englishmā, from Proto-Germanic*maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European*meh₂-.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mɔː/
Rhymes: -ɔː
Adjective
mo
more numerous; larger in amount
greater in quantity or intensity
additional, further, other (persons or things in addition to those mentioned)
higher in social status
Adverb
mo
to a greater degree; more
longer, again, any more
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 Latinmollis.
Adjective
mom
(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
how
Further reading
Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Believed to be from the noun moe.
Adjective
mo (neuter singularmoormott, definite singular and pluralmoormoe)
close, sultry
Etymology 2
From Old Norsemoðr.
Alternative forms
mod
Adjective
mo (neuter singularmo, definite singular and pluralmoormoe)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mo
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)
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
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Occitan
Pronoun
mom (femininema, masculine pluralmos)
my (possessive; belong to 'me')
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: mo
Contraction
mo (femininema)
Contraction of me o(“him/it to me”).
Réunion Creole French
Etymology
From Frenchmot(“word”).
Noun
mo
word
Samoan
Preposition
mo
for
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irishmo. Cognates include Irishmo.
Determiner
mo (triggers lenition)
my
See also
References
“mo” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC.
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-mo
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
moc
sandy soil
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).
Pronunciation
(Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /mo/, [mo]
Rhymes: -o
Adjective
mo (Baybayin spellingᜋᜓ)
second person singular possessive adjective; your
See also
Tuvaluan
Preposition
mo
for
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [mɔ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [mɔ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [mɔ˧˧]
Noun
mo • (𥷺, 𧄲)
spathe of the areca tree
Welsh
Etymology
Reduced form of ddim o(“not of, nothing of”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mɔ/
Particle
mo(causes soft mutation)
(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
(transitive) to swallow
(transitive) to slurp up, to suck up
Conjugation
Etymology 2
For the semantic development of the interjection, compare Spanishya(“already; come on!”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mo/
Adverb
mo
Alternative form of omo(“already”)
Interjection
mo
come!
come on!
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mo/
Verb
mo
(stative)alternative form of mu(“ripe”)
Conjugation
References
James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[2], Pacific linguistics
Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics
Yao
Etymology
Cognates include Swahilimoja.
Numeral
mo
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)