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Mo
Mo
English
Proper noun
Mo.
- Abbreviation of Missouri.
- 1992, Clement E. Vose, Caucasians Only
- He suggested that members of the various Associations should be represented at the meeting in Jefferson City, Wednesday afternoon, February 19, in the Capital Building, Jefferson City, Mo., to oppose this bill.
- 1992, Clement E. Vose, Caucasians Only
Proper noun
Mo
- A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses and Maurice.
- A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen.
- A Chinese surname derived from 莫 (mò).
Anagrams
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moː/
- Rhymes: -oː
Noun
Mo m (plural Mee)
mo
mo
English
Adverb
mo (not comparable)
Adjective
mo (not comparable)
- (archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXII:
- Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.
- 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, trans. Bible, Matthew XXII:
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of month.
Noun
mo (plural mos)
Etymology 3
Clipping of moment.
Noun
mo (uncountable)
- (colloquial) 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
Clipping of more, non-rhotic dialects, notably African American Vernacular English. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).
Alternative forms
Adjective
mo (not comparable)
- (dialectal) more
- Yo, you got mo chips?
Etymology 6
Noun
mo (plural mos)
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache
Anagrams
Albanian
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)
Alternative forms
Esperanto
Noun
mo (accusative singular mo-on, plural mo-oj, accusative plural mo-ojn)
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 (Category: eo:Latin letter names)
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mˠə]
Determiner
mo (triggers lenition of a following consonant)
- 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
Related terms
- m’ (form used before a vowel or lenited f)
See also
Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) |
Disjunctive (emphatic) |
Possessive determiner |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before a vowel or fh- |
|
Second | tú (tusa) |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before a vowel or fh- |
|
Third masculine | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
Third feminine | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | |
Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
Second | sibh (sibhse) |
bhur E | ||
Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E |
Lojban
Cmavo
mo
- (interrogative, pro-bridi) used as the selbri, the word indicates asking for the selbri.
- do mo
- What are you? / What are you doing?
- le cukta cu mo le karce
- How are the book and the car related?
- do mo
See also
Mandarin
Romanization
mo (Zhuyin ㄇㄛ˙)
- A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, mō, mó, mǒ, or mò.
- Pinyin transcription of 么
- Pinyin transcription of 庅
- Pinyin transcription of 麼, 麽
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mauritian Creole
Etymology 1
Pronoun
mo (objective mwa)
- I (first-person singular nominative personal pronoun)
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
mo
Norman
Etymology
Adjective
mo m
Derived terms
- molle hèrbe (“creeping soft grass; Yorkshire fog”)
- mollement (“softly”)
Norwegian
Etymology
Noun
mo
Inflection
NB: This section is incomplete, as there are four more meanings and different etymons. See Bokmåls- og nynorskordboka, Universitetet i Oslo.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Pronoun
mo
Usage notes
- Lenites the following word.
- mo + baile = mo bhaile (my town)
- Takes the form m' before words beginning with a vowel: m' ainm (my name).