mo

See also Appendix:Variations of "mo"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /məʊ/
• (US) enPR: mō, IPA: /moʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

mo (not comparable)

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

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.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of month.

Abbreviation

mo (plural mos)

1. month

Etymology 3

Shortening of moment.

Noun

mo (uncountable)

1. moment

   "Hang on a mo!"

Etymology 4

Shortening of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

1. a homosexual

Anagrams

• om, O.M.

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Adangme

Pronoun

mo

1. you

   I suɔ mo.

   I love you.

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Amanab

Noun

mo

1. speech, language, word

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Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”)

Noun

mo

1. word

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”)

Noun

mo

1. word

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mˠə]

Pronoun

mo

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

Related terms

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

Usage notes

• Triggers lenition of a following noun:

  mo bhád -- my boat

  mo mháthair -- my mother

• Used before the verbal noun to indicate direct object:

  Tá sé ag mo bhualadh -- He is hitting me

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Italian

Adverb

mo

1. Alternative spelling of mo'.

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Japanese

Syllable

mo

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

Particle

mo (hiragana も)

1. も: too, also, so

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Lojban

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?

See also

• ma
• xu

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Mandarin

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, mō, mó, mǒ, or mò.
2. 么: interrogative particle; repetition of a tune small; tender
3. 庅: an interrogative particle
4. 麼, 麽: interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny

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.

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”)

Noun

mo

1. word

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse mór (“moor”)

Noun

mo

1. moor
2. heath

Inflection

    Inflection of mo

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	mo	moen	moer	moene
Nynorsk m	mo	moen	moar	moane

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

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Old Provençal

Pronoun

mo m. (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

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

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Réunion Creole French

Etymology

From French mot (“word”)

Noun

mo

1. word

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Old Irish mo, mu

Pronoun

mo

1. my, mine

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).

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Swedish

Noun

mo c.

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

Declension

Declension of mo

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

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Tuvaluan

Preposition

mo

1. for