moes

See also: mös

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

moes

1. preterite of moet; had to

   Die kinders moes in haar kar kots.

   The children had to puke in her car.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

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• Hyphenation: moes
• Rhymes: -us

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch moes, from Old Dutch muos, from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą.

Noun

moes f or n (uncountable)

1. mush, pulp (of food)

Derived terms

• appelmoes
• mengelmoes
• moeshof
• moeskruid
• moespap
• moesplant
• moespot
• moestuin
• peelmoes
• warmoes

 

Etymology 2

Compare moeder, moe.

Noun

moes f (uncountable, diminutive moesje n)

1. (colloquial, often in the diminutive) mom, mother

Estonian

Noun

moes

1. inessive singular of mood

Galician

Verb

moes

1. second-person singular present indicative of moer

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• Mous (Aubel)
• Muus (Eupen, Krefeld, german-based spelling)
• moues (Genk)
• meus (Griendtsveen)
• maus (Tongeren)
• moos (Val-Meer)
• moeës (various dialects)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch muus, from Old Dutch *mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

Noun

moes f (plural muus, diminutive muuske)

1. mouse

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French meis, from Latin mēnsis, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwɛ/, /møː/

Noun

moes m

1. month

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *boɨs, from Proto-Celtic *banssus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-. The m- replaced the b- under the influence of Latin mōs, reinforced by the ambiguity of the lenited form foes (which could in theory come from either boes or moes).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /moːɨ̯s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mɔi̯s/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯s

Noun

moes f (plural moesau)

1. morality
2. (in the plural) morals

Related terms

• moesol

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
moes	foes	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.