moho
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]moho (plural mohos)
- The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Hawaiian ʻōʻō, onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion of its name with the moho (“rail”).
Noun
[edit]moho (plural mohos)
- Synonym of oo.
References
[edit]- “moho”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “moho, n.1.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Anagrams
[edit]Phuthi
[edit]Etymology
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Adverb
[edit]móhó
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown, but proposed possibilities include:
- Of expressive origin.[1]
- A Germanic borrowing, from Old High German *muff (“mold”) or a similar source.[2]
Compare Portuguese mofo and Italian muffa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]moho m (plural mohos)
References
[edit]- ^ “moho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 213
Further reading
[edit]- “moho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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