mo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mo"

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mo

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
(US) enPR: mō, IPA^(key): /moʊ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

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.

Adverb

mo (not comparable)

(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: […]
(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)
- 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.

Etymology 2

Noun

mo (plural mos)

Abbreviation of month.
Alternative forms: m, mo.

Etymology 3

Noun

mo (uncountable)

(colloquial) Clipping of moment.
Synonyms: bit, sec, tick; see also Thesaurus:moment

Hang on a mo!

Etymology 4

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

(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”)
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?

Etymology 6

Short for moustache.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.

Etymology 7

Clipping.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

(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.

Related terms

chomo

Etymology 8

Clipping.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

(slang) A moron.
- 1997, “Detox”, in City, performed by Strapping Young Lad:
  Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo! Hey, you mo!

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.

Anagrams

O&M, O.M., OM, om

Noun

mo

(anatomy) stomach

Pronoun

mo

you
I suɔ mo.
I love you.

Pronoun

mo

ye, you (plural)

Alternative forms

mos

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mē, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (a prohibitive particle).

Particle

mo (masculine adjectival i mo, feminine singular e mo, masculine plural të mo, feminine plural të moa)

don't

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

Noun

mo

speech, language, word

Noun

mo

mountain

References

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

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

word

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mo

second person singular possessive adjective; your

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mo/

Noun

mo

road, path
nie fade bi zhin mo jiere yawuzhi saozhi wo.
one time I was walking on the road.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

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

Noun

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

The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

mo

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mʊ]

Contraction

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

Contraction of me o.
Damo! ― Give it to me!

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mo/

Noun

mo

word

Alternative forms

m’ (used before vowel sounds)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

References

[1]
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 88
[2]
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mox (“soon”) or Latin modo (“recently, just now”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmo/^*
Rhymes: -o
Hyphenation: mó

Adverb

mo (central-southern Italy or archaic)

present. now
Synonyms: ora, adesso

E mo che voi?
What do you want now?

Mo so' cazzi tua.
It's your business now.
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 vedé.
I'll show you.
near past. recently, just now
Synonyms: appena, poco fa

Ce so' stato mo.
I've been there just now.
(originally ironic) See da mo.
(repeated) See mo mo.

Romanization

mo

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

Etymology

From Sanskrit मा (mā́), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (prohibitive particle). Cognate with Hindi मत (mat), Persian (ma-), Albanian mo.

Particle

mo

do not, don't (prohibitive particle)

Etymology

From Common Nuristani *māi, probably an early borrowing of Middle Chinese 米 (mei^X). Compare Ashkun mā, Tregami myä, Waigali mä.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmo/

Noun

mo (Kamviri)^[1]

husked rice

References

[1]
Strand, Richard F. (2016) “m′o”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

Etymology

From mu +‎ ya.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈman/ [ˈmän]

Adverb

mo

although; even if; even though
Synonyms: agyang, man
also; no matter what; and
Synonyms: din, pati, agyaman

Mipakananumo ― No matter what happens.

Yakumo ― Me as well.

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

Derived terms

makanitamo
sakali pamo
nanumo
ninumo
namo

Thumb — Reverse of a silver penny of Æthelstan of England with the inscription REGNALD MO EFORƿIC ("Regnald Moneyer at York")

Noun

mo

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mo

(Yao'an) bamboo

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, plural nouzòt, nou, no, objective mò, possessive determiner mô, possessive pronoun mokin, mochin)

I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
Mo té manké twa.
I missed you.

Derived terms

(prevocalic) m'

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.

Noun

mo

foot

References

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

Etymology 1

From French moi (“me”).

Pronoun

mo (objective mwa)

I (first-person singular nominative personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

word

Alternative spelling: mot.

Alternative forms

ma, moe

Etymology

From Old English mā, 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

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.

Etymology

From Latin mollis.

Adjective

mo m

(Jersey) soft

Derived terms

molle hèrbe (“creeping soft grass; Yorkshire fog”)
mollement (“softly”)

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

Etymology 1

Believed to be from the noun moe.

Adjective

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

close, sultry

Etymology 2

From Old Norse moðr.

Alternative forms

mod

Adjective

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

tired, weary

Etymology 3

From Old Norse mór (“moor”).

Noun

mo m (definite singular moen, indefinite plural moer, definite plural moene)

moor, heath
(military) drill ground

Etymology 4

From Old Norse moð.

Noun

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

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

References

“mo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

moor, heath
(military) drill ground

Etymology 2

Perhaps from the noun moe m.

Adjective

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

close, sultry

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

mod (alternative spelling)

Adjective

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

tired, weary

Etymology 4

From Old Norse moð.

Alternative forms

mò (alternative spelling)

Noun

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

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

Etymology 5

From German, originally moder.

Adverb

mo

Used as an intensifier about loneliness
Synonym: mutters

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mo

imperative of moa

References

“mo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

mò, Mo, om, óm

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”)).^[1]

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. 10^d23
  Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.
  If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.
- 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. 73^d1
  Fu·lilsain-se .i. matis mu námait duda·gnetis ⁊ maniptis mu chara⟨i⟩t duda·gnetis.
  I would have endured, i.e. if it had been my enemies who did them and if it had not been my friends who did them.

Descendants

Irish: mo
Scottish Gaelic: mo
Manx: my

References

[1]
Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 333

Pronoun

mo m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

my (possessive; belong to 'me')

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mu/

Hyphenation: mo

Contraction

mo (feminine ma)

Contraction of me o (“him/it to me”).

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

word

Preposition

mo

for

Etymology

From Old Irish mo. Cognates include Irish mo.

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

my

References

“mo” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC.

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya): (file)

Verb

-mo

present stem of -wamo (“to be (inside there)”)
wamo ― they are inside

Noun

mo c

sandy soil
a sandy field, a moor, a heath

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mo	mos
singular	definite	mon	mons
plural	indefinite	moar	moars
plural	definite	moarna	moarnas

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Declension of mo

Derived terms

mosnäppa
pinnmo
morot

Anagrams

om

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓ)

second person singular possessive adjective; your

Preposition

mo

for

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mo • (𥷺, 謨)

(botany) spathe of the areca tree
quạt mo ― a fan made from areca spathes

Derived terms

mặt mo

Etymology 2

From Tai, compare Thai หมอ (mɔ̌ɔ).

Noun

mo

Short for thầy mo.

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:

More information Singular, Plural ...

	Singular	Plural
First person	mohono	mohonon
Second person	mohonot	mohonoch
Third person	mohono m mohoni f	mohonyn

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Personal forms (literary & colloquial)

Mutation

Does not mutate.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mo/

Verb

mo

(transitive) to swallow
(transitive) to slurp up, to suck up

Conjugation

More information Conjugation of (action verb), singular ...

Conjugation of mo (action verb)
		singular	plural
		singular	inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tomo	momo	amo
2nd person		nomo	fomo
3rd person	inanimate	imo	domo
3rd person	animate	imo	domo
imperative		nomo, mo	fomo, mo

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Etymology 2

For the semantic development of the interjection, compare Spanish ya (“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

More information Conjugation of (stative verb), singular ...

Conjugation of mo (stative verb)
		singular	plural
		singular	inclusive	exclusive
1st person		timo	mimo	amo
2nd person		nimo	fimo
3rd person	inanimate	imo	dimo
3rd person	animate	mamo	dimo
imperative		—, mo	—, mo

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References

James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics
Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

**Yao cardinal numbers**
< 0	1	2 >
Cardinal : mo

Etymology

Cognates include Swahili moja.

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.

Alternative forms

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

Pronoun

mo

I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

Number	Person (and gender)	Conjunctive (emphatic)	Disjunctive (emphatic)	Possessive determiner
Singular	First	mé (mise)		mo ^L m' before vowel sounds
	Second	tú (tusa)¹	thú (thusa)	do ^L d' before vowel sounds
	Third masculine	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a ^L
	Third feminine	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a ^H
	Third neuter	—	ea	—
Plural	First	muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár ^E
	Second	sibh (sibhse)¹		bhur ^E
	Third	siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a ^E

	Singular		Plural
	+ C	+ V	+ C	+ V
First person	mo^L	m'	ar	ar^N
Second person	do^L	d'	ur	ur^N
Third person m	a^L	—	an, am¹⁾	an
Third person f	a	a^H	an, am¹⁾	an
^L Triggers lenition; ^H Triggers H-prothesis; ^N Triggers eclipsis; ¹⁾ Used before b-, f-, m- or p-

Person	Number	Direct (ang)	Indirect (ng)	Oblique (sa)
First	singular	ako	ko	akin
	dual¹	kita, kata	nita, nata, ta	kanita, kanata, ata
	plural inclusive	tayo	natin	atin
	plural exclusive	kami	namin	amin
First & Second	singular	kita²
Second	singular	ikaw, ka	mo	iyo
Second	plural	kayo, kamo	ninyo, niyo	inyo
Third	singular	siya	niya	kaniya
Third	plural	sila	nila	kanila
¹ First person dual pronouns are not commonly used in Standard Tagalog. ² Replaces ko ikaw.

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	mi / n	a
2nd person	o	ẹ
3rd person	[pronoun dropped]	wọn

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	èmi	àwa
2nd person	ìwọ	ẹ̀yin
3rd person	òun	àwọn

	singular	plural
1st person	mo mwa (objective)	nou
2nd person	to (informal), ou (formal) twa (objective)	zot
3rd person	li	zot, bann-la

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	mi	wa
2nd person	ọ / ẹ	yín
3rd person	[preceding vowel repeated for monosyllabic verbs] / ẹ̀	wọn

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