mo

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English , from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *mə-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish , Albanian . See also more, most.

[edit] Adverb

mo (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) To a greater degree.
  2. (now dialectal) Further, longer.

[edit] Adjective

mo (not comparable)

  1. (now dialectal) Greater in amount or quantity.
  2. (now dialectal) More in number.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXII:
      Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.

[edit] Etymology 2

Abbreviation of month.

[edit] Abbreviation

mo (plural mos)

  1. month

[edit] Etymology 3

Shortening of moment.

[edit] Noun

mo (uncountable)

  1. moment
    "Hang on a mo!"

[edit] Etymology 4

Shortening of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

[edit] Noun

mo (plural mos)

  1. a homosexual

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[edit] Adangme

[edit] Pronoun

mo

  1. you
    I suɔ mo.
    I love you.

[edit] Amanab

[edit] Noun

mo

  1. speech, language, word

[edit] Antillean Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French mot (word)

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mo

  1. word

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French mot (word)

[edit] Noun

mo

  1. word

[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Pronoun

mo

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

[edit] Related terms

  • m' (form used before a vowel or lenited f)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Adverb

mo

  1. Alternative spelling of mo'.

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Syllable

mo

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

[edit] Particle

mo (hiragana )

  1. : too, also, so

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Cmavo

mo

  1. 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?

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Romanization

mo (form of mo0 or mo5)

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, , , , or .
  2. : interrogative particle; repetition of a tune small; tender
  3. : an interrogative particle
  4. , : interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.


[edit] Mauritian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French mot (word)

[edit] Noun

mo

  1. word

[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse mór (moor)

[edit] Noun

mo

  1. moor
  2. heath

[edit] Inflection

NB: This section is incomplete, as there are four more meanings and different etymons. See Bokmåls- og nynorskordboka, Universitetet i Oslo.


[edit] Old Provençal

[edit] Pronoun

mo m. (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

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

[edit] Réunion Creole French

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From French mot (word)

[edit] Noun

mo

  1. word

[edit] Scottish Gaelic

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Old Irish mo, mu

[edit] Pronoun

mo

  1. my, mine

[edit] 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).

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

mo c.

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

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[edit] Tuvaluan

[edit] Preposition

mo

  1. for
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