moes

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

moes

1. preterite of moet; had to

   Die kinders moes in haar kar kots.

   The children had to puke in her car.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

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• Hyphenation: moes
• Rhymes: -us

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch moes, from Old Dutch muos, from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą.

Etymology 2

Compare moeder, moe.

Noun

moes

1. inessive singular of mood

Verb

moes

1. second-person singular present indicative of moer

Alternative forms

• Mous (Aubel)
• Muus (Eupen, Krefeld, german-based spelling)
• moues (Genk)
• meus (Griendtsveen)
• maus (Tongeren)
• moos (Val-Meer)
• moeës (various dialects)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch muus, from Old Dutch *mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

Noun

moes f (plural muus, diminutive muuske)

1. mouse

Etymology

From Old French meis, from Latin mēnsis, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwɛ/, /møː/

Noun

moes m

1. month

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *boɨs, from Proto-Celtic *baissā. The m- replaced the b- under the influence of Latin mōs, reinforced by the ambiguity of the lenited form foes (which could in theory come from either boes or moes).

Cognate to Breton boaz (“custom, habit”).

Attempts to relate this *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”) (via e.g. a Proto-Celtic *banssus) fail to explain the lack of a nasal and the appearance of an oe in Welsh.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /moːɨ̯s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mɔi̯s/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯s

Noun

moes f (plural moesau)

1. morality
2. (in the plural) morals

Mutation