mo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mo"

Translingual

Symbol

mo

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

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (US) enPR: mō, IPA^(key): /moʊ/

• Audio (AU)

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• 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)

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

Adjective

mo (not comparable)

1. (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 762018299, Matthew xxij]:

     Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.

Etymology 2

Noun

mo (plural mos)

1. Abbreviation of month.

Etymology 3

Noun

mo (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of moment.

   Hang on a mo!

Etymology 4

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

1. (slang) A homosexual.

Etymology 5

Only coincidentally similar to sense 1 above. Compare fo' (“for; four”), ho (“whore”).

Adjective

mo (not comparable)

2. (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 & Diddy:

     I guess this mean mo money, mo problems for you?

Etymology 6

Short for moustache.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.

Etymology 7

Clipping.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

1. (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)

1. (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

1. The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.

See also

• do, gro

Anagrams

• O&M, O.M., OM, om

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Abinomn

Noun

mo

1. (anatomy) stomach

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Adangme

Pronoun

mo

1. you

   I suɔ mo.

   I love you.

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Akan

Pronoun

mo

1. ye, you (plural)

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Albanian

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)

1. don't

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• ma, mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn

Etymology

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

Noun

mo m (Carcoforo)

1. man
2. husband

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

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Amanab

Noun

mo

1. speech, language, word

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Angguruk Yali

Noun

mo

1. mountain

References

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

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Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

1. word

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Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Adjective

mo

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

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Dongxiang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/, [mʷo]

Noun

mo

1. road, path

   nie fade bi zhin mo jiere yawuzhi saozhi wo.

   one time I was walking on the road.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): [mo]
• Hyphenation: mo

Noun

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

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

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

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

1. word

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Irish

Alternative forms

• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

Etymology

From Old Irish mo, mu, from Proto-Celtic *moy, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)moy, clitic oblique case of *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mˠə/
• (Ulster, also) IPA^(key): /mˠa/

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my

   mo bhád ― my boat

   mo mháthair ― my mother

2. me (direct object pronoun before verbal noun)

   Tá sé ag mo bhualadh ― He is hitting me

See also

Irish personal pronouns

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
Plural	First	muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár E
	Second	sibh (sibhse)1		bhur E
	Third	siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a E

^L Triggers lenition ^E Triggers eclipsis ^H Triggers h-prothesis

¹ Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “mo” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mo” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Italian

Adverb

mo

1. Alternative spelling of mo'

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Japanese

Romanization

mo

1. Rōmaji transcription of も
2. Rōmaji transcription of モ

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Kalasha

Etymology

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

Particle

mo

1. do not, don't (prohibitive particle)

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Lolopo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mo³³]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Burmese -မ (-ma.).

Suffix

mo

1. (Yao'an) female

See also

• por
• bol

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mo 

1. (Yao'an) bamboo

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Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Pronoun

mo (first person singular, plural nouzòt, objective mò, possessive mô)

1. I.

Coordinate terms

• to
• li
• nou, no, nouzòt
• vouzòt, ouzòt, zòt, zo
• yé

Related terms

• m'

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Mandarin

Romanization

mo (mo⁵ / mo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼, 麽, 么, 庅.

mo

1. Nonstandard spelling of mō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mò.

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.

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Matlatzinca

Noun

mo

1. foot

References

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

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French moi (“me”).

Pronoun

mo (objective mwa)

1. I (first-person singular nominative personal pronoun)

See also

Mauritian Creole personal pronouns

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

Etymology 2

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

1. word

Alternative spelling: mot.

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Middle English

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

1. more numerous; larger in amount
2. greater in quantity or intensity
3. additional, further, other (persons or things in addition to those mentioned)
4. higher in social status

Adverb

mo

1. to a greater degree; more
2. longer, again, any more
3. besides, also, further, else

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.

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin mollis.

Adjective

mo m

1. (Jersey) soft

Derived terms

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

 

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Northern Sami

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

1. how

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Believed to be from the noun moe.

Adjective

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

1. close, sultry

Etymology 2

From Old Norse moðr.

Alternative forms

• mod

Adjective

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

1. tired, weary

Etymology 3

From Old Norse mór (“moor”).

Noun

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

1. moor, heath
2. (military) drill ground

Etymology 4

From Old Norse moð.

Noun

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

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

References

• “mo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. moor, heath
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

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

Etymology 5

From German, originally moder.

Adverb

mo

1. Used as an intensifier about loneliness

   Synonym: mutters

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mo

1. imperative of moa

References

• “mo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• mò, Mo, om, óm

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• mu
• m’ (used before vowel sounds)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *moy, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)moy, clitic oblique case of *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

1. 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.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Occitan

Pronoun

mo m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos)

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

• Hyphenation: mo

Contraction

mo (feminine ma)

1. Contraction of me o (“him/it to me”).

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Réunion Creole French

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

1. word

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Samoan

Preposition

mo

1. for

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mo. Cognates include Irish mo.

Determiner

mo (triggers lenition)

1. my

See also

Scottish Gaelic possessive determiners

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

References

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

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Particle

mo

1. "inside" locative class suffix, "inside" of a definite place indicator

   watu wamo chumbani

   the people are inside the room

Inflection

Inflected forms of -mo

Noun class	singular positive	plural positive	singular negative	plural negative
1st-Person	nimo	tumo	simo	hatumo
2nd-Person	umo	mumo	humo	hamumo
M-wa class / 3rd-Person	yumo	wamo	hayumo	hawamo
M-mi class	umo	imo	haumo	haimo
Ma class	limo	yamo	halimo	hayamo
Ki-vi class	kimo	vimo	hakimo	havimo
N class	imo	zimo	haimo	hazimo
U class	umo	umo	haumo	haumo
Pa class	pamo	pamo	hapamo	hapamo
Ku class	kumo	kumo	hakumo	hakumo
Mu class	mumo	mumo	hamumo	hamumo

See also

• po: definite place indicator
• ko: indefinite place indicator

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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
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mo	mon	moar	moarna
Genitive	mos	mons	moars	moarnas

Derived terms

• mosnäppa
• pinnmo
• morot

Anagrams

• om

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/, [mo]

Adjective

mo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓ)

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

See also

Tagalog personal pronouns

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

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Tuvaluan

Preposition

mo

1. for

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɔ˧˧]

Noun

mo • (𥷺, 𧄲)

1. spathe of the areca tree

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Welsh

Etymology

Reduced form of ddim o (“not of, nothing of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ/

Particle

mo (causes soft mutation)

1. (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:

Personal forms

	Singular	Plural
First person	mohono i	mohonon ni
Second person	mohonot ti	mohonoch chi
Third person	mohono fe/fo m mohoni hi f	mohonyn nhw

See also

• dim, ddim (negative particle used in all other situations)

Mutation

Does not mutate.

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West Makian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Verb

mo

1. (transitive) to swallow
2. (transitive) to slurp up, to suck up

Conjugation

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

Etymology 2

For the semantic development of the interjection, compare Spanish ya (“already; come on!”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Adverb

mo

1. Alternative form of omo (“already”)

Interjection

mo

1. come!
2. come on!

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Verb

mo

1. (stative) alternative form of mu (“ripe”)

Conjugation

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

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse móðr (“emotion, anger,”) from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, whence also English mood. Influenced by French mode, from Latin modus. In the sense ’anger’ replaced by sinn. For the sense ’method’ compare me n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /múː/, [mɯ́ᵝː] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -úːð

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -úː, -úːð

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -úːð, -úːr

Noun

mo n (definite singular mode or moe, plural mo)

1. (singular only) Spirit, love of life, optimism.
2. Way of behaving, mood.

   han hadd de mode

   he had that way

3. Fashion.
4. Method.

Related terms

• modd
• moes
• morasam
• missmodd

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Yao

Yao cardinal numbers

<  0	1	2  >
Cardinal : mo

Etymology

Cognates include Swahili moja.

Numeral

mo

1. 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.

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Yoruba

Alternative forms

• mi (used in a negative sentence, or generally in some dialects)

Pronoun

mo

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

Affirmative subject pronouns

	singular	plural or honorific
1st person	mo	a
2nd person	o	ẹ
3rd person	ó	wọ́n

Negative subject pronouns

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

Object pronouns

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

Note: except for yín, object pronouns have a high tone following a low or mid tone monosyllabic verb, and a mid tone following a high tone. For complex verbs, the tone does not change.

Emphatic pronouns

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