mo

Clipping of English Moldovan, from Romanian Moldova.

mo

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

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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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 *meh₂-. 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.
   • 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:

     When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]

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)
   • 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

   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:

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

Clipping of month.

mo

2. month

   Alternative forms: mo., mon, m, M

   12 yr 4 mo 17 d

mo (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of moment.

   Synonyms: bit, sec, tick; see also Thesaurus:moment

   Hang on a mo!

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

mo (plural mos)

1. (slang) A homosexual.

Non-rhotic pronunciation of more. Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

mo (not comparable)

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

   Yo, you got mo chips?

   • 1997, “Mo Money Mo Problems”, in Life After Death, performed by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Ma$e and Diddy:

     I guess this mean mo money, mo problems for you?

Clipping of moustache.

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

Clipping.

mo (plural mos)

1. (slang) A moron.
   • 1997, “Detox”, in City, performed by Strapping Young Lad:

     Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!

From mil, by analogy with do and gro.

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.

• do, gro

• O&M, O.M., OM, om

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

mo

1. indicates the negative

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

mo

1. (anatomy) stomach

mo

1. you

   I suɔ mo.

   I love you.

mo

1. ye, you (plural)

• mos

From Proto-Albanian *mē, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁ (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

• 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

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mo

1. speech, language, word

mo

1. sun

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

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

• IPA^(key): /mo/ [mo]
• Hyphenation: mo

mo (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓ)

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

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

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. road, path

   nie fade bi zhin mo jiere yawuzhi saozhi wo.

   one time I was walking on the road.

• IPA^(key): /mo/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: mo

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

1. The name of the Latin script letter M/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

• “mo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “mo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

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

mo

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

• IPA^(key): [mʊ]

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

1. contraction of me +‎ o

   Damo! ― Give it to me!

From French mot (“word”).

• IPA^(key): /mo/

• Audio:

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mo

1. word

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[3], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 131

• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

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

• IPA^(key): /mˠə/
• (Munster, also) IPA^(key): /mˠo/^[1]
• (Ulster, also) IPA^(key): /mˠa/^[2]

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “mo”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mo”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

• mo'^[1]
• mò (misspelling)
• mó (misspelling)

Inherited from Latin modo (“recently, just now”)^[1] or Latin mox (“soon”), possibly a merger of both.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ/^*[1][2][3]
  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Hyphenation: mò
  • Homophone: mo'
• (regional^[1], Romanesco^[2]) IPA^(key): /ˈmo/^*[3]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: mó

mo (dialectal or colloquial)

1. (in the present) now

   Synonyms: ora, adesso

   E mo che voi?

   What do you want now?

   Mo so' cazzi tua.

   It's your business now.

2. (in the near future) soon, in a moment

   Synonyms: subito, tra poco

   E 'n attimo! Mo lo faccio!

   Wait a second! I'll do it in a moment!

   Aspetta! Mo arivo!

   Wait! I'm coming!

   Mo te faccio vede.

   I'll show you.

3. (in the near past) recently, just now

   Synonyms: appena, poco fa

   Ce so' stato mo.

   I've been there just now.

4. (originally ironic) See da mo.
5. (repeated) See mo mo.

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “mo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

mo

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

From Sanskrit मा (mā́), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁ (prohibitive particle). Cognate with Hindi मत (mat), Persian مـ (ma-), Albanian mo.

mo

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

Probably an early borrowing of Middle Chinese 米 (mej^X). Compare Ashkun mā, Tregami myä, Waigali mä.

mo f (Southeastern)^[1]

1. husked rice

From mu +‎ ya.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman/ [ˈman]

mo

1. although; even if; even though

   Synonyms: agyang, man

   Kumabieng bakamo. ― Perhaps even if I live.

   Kumaili parin, pusung manasakitmo. ― I will keep smiling, even though my heart aches a lot.

2. also; no matter what; and

   Synonyms: din, pati, agyaman, ampo

   Mipakananumo ― No matter what happens.

   Asumo pusamo buring-buri. ― I love both dogs and cats.

   Yakumo ― Me too.

   Sinabianan nakung nanumo. ― S/he also told me something.

mo

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

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

mo

1. from, away from
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 1:4 [Genesis 1:4]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[4], page 2:

     Houg꞉ lho꞉ nyang꞉ gi booˮ bang ri moug꞉ coid mo khoʼ pyam

     Then he split the light from the darkness

• Mark Wannemacher (2011), A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 30
• Hkaw Luk (2017), A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[6], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 24

mo

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

• IPA^(key): [mo³³]

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

mo

1. (Yao'an) female

• por
• bol

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

mo

1. (Yao'an) bamboo

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

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

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)

   Mo té manké twa.

   I missed you.

• (prevocalic) m'

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

• 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.

mo

1. foot

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

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.

• ma, moe

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

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

mo

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

• most
• no mo

• English: mo

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

From Latin mollis.

mo m

1. (Jersey) soft

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• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː/

mō

1. how

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[7], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.

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

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

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

Perhaps from the noun moe m.

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

1. close, sultry

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

• mod (alternative spelling)

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

1. tired, weary

From Old Norse moð.

• mò (alternative spelling)

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

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

From German, originally moder.

mo

1. Used as an intensifier about loneliness

   Synonym: mutters

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mo

1. imperative of moa

• “mo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mò, Mo, om, óm

• mu
• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

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”)).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my
2. me (direct object pronoun before verbal noun)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mo.

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

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

mo m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

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

• m'o (pre-standardization spelling)

• Hyphenation: mo

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

1. contraction of me +‎ o, literally “him/it to me”

From French mot (“word”).

mo

1. word

mo

1. for

• IPA^(key): /mɔ˩/

mo

1. you, thou (second-person singular pronoun)

From Old Irish mo. Cognates include Irish mo.

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my

• Armstrong, R. A. (1825), “mo”, in A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts‎^[8], London, →OCLC

Unstressed monosyllabic form likely derived from Old Catalan mon, from Vulgar Latin *mum, reduced form of Latin meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. Cognate with Old Occitan mo, French mon. Compare also the indirect (but homomorph) Scottish Gaelic and Irish mo. Doublet of meu.

• (Acireale, Buscemi) IPA^(key): /mɔ/, [mɔ]
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: mo

mo m (feminine mea or mia or me', masculine plural mei or me' or miei, feminine plural mei or me' or miei)

1. (dialectal variant) first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun, alternative form of meu

• (a) mia
• (a) tia

• Audio (Kenya):

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-mo

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

   wamo ― they are inside

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

Inherited from Old Norse mór.

mo c

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

• mosnäppa
• pinnmo
• morot

• om

• Mo — honorific alternative case

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

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

mo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓ) (postpositive)

1. your; of you; by you (singular)

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

mo

1. for

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

Compare Tày bo, which suggests previous *ɓ-.

mo • (𥷺, 謨)

1. (botany) spathe of the areca tree

   quạt mo ― a fan made from areca spathes

• mặt mo

Of Tai origin, compare Thai หมอ (mɔ̌ɔ).

mo

1. short for thầy mo

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔ/

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.

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:

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

Does not mutate.

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

1. alternative form of omo (“already”)

mo

1. come!
2. come on!

• IPA^(key): /mo/

mo

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

• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[9], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[10], Pacific linguistics

Yao (Africa) cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : mo

Cognates include Swahili moja.

mo

1. 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.

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

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mo

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)