mou

See also: Mou, MOU, MoU, móu, mòu, mōu, mǒu, and mᵒū

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).

Particle

mou

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) Sentence-final particle, forms a tag question.

   Kopitiam mou? ― Do you want to go to the coffee shop?

   Day trip mou? ― Do you want to go on a day trip?

   Hiking tomorrow. Onz mou? ― I/We are going on a hike tomorrow. Are you coming?

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mouw, from Middle Dutch mouwe, from Old Dutch *mouwa, *mōwa, from Frankish *mauwa, from Proto-Germanic *mawwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mœu̯/

Noun

mou (plural moue)

1. sleeve

Derived terms

• die aap uit die mou laat
• in sy mou lag

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Aiwoo

Adjective

mou

1. dark grue (dark green, dark blue)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin modus.

Noun

mou m (plural moos)

1. way; manner
2. result

Derived terms

• a mou
• d'otru mou
• de mou que

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔw/
• Rhymes: -ɔw

Verb

mou

1. third-person singular present indicative form of moure
2. second-person singular imperative form of moure

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French

Etymology

From Old French mol, inherited from Latin mollis, mollem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

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• Homophones: moud, mouds, moue, moues, mous, moût, moûts

Adjective

mou (masculine singular before vowel mol, feminine molle, masculine plural mous, feminine plural molles)

1. soft, pliable
2. (informal) pansy, spineless

Derived terms

• couille molle
• palais mou
• science molle
• signe mou
• ne pas promettre poires molles
• donner du mou
• mou du genou
• coup de mou
• ventre mou

 

Noun

mou m (plural mous)

1. lungs, lights (of a slaughtered animal)

Further reading

• “mou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Mandarin

Romanization

mou

1. Nonstandard spelling of mōu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of móu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǒu.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mòu.

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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Old Irish

Etymology

Remodelled from the superlative moäm on the analogy with regular adjectives.

Alternative forms

• mó, moä, móo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.u/

Adjective

moü

1. comparative degree of mór

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
moü also mmoü after a proclitic	moü pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Kim McCone (1994), “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in Kim McCone, Damian McManus, Cathal Ó Háinle, Nicholas Williams, Liam Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, Maigh Nuad, →ISBN, §20.3, page 125:

  Síolraíonn SG brc. mó ‘níos mó’ (gnáthfhoirm Wb.) go díreach ó *máu (11.3-4) < *māūh < *mā(y)ūs (> Briot. *mōīh > MB mwy) […]. D’imoibrigh bun-, breis agus sár-chéim ar a chéile i ré na Sean-Ghaeilge: m.sh., […] brc. móa (Wb.) faoi thionchar leithéide oa ‘níos óige’ thuas, agus brc. mou (gnáthfhoirm Ml.) ar bhonn src. moam de réir an ghaoil idir brc. córu ‘níos córa’, src. córam ‘is córa’ (cf. 3.7) agus mar sin de san aicme rialta.

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Old Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔw/

Verb

mou

1. third-person singular present indicative of mover

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Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with West Makian mou (“mute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/

Verb

mou

1. (stative) to be mute

Conjugation

Conjugation of mou
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tomou	fomou	mimou
2nd	nomou	nimou
3rd	Masculine	omou	imou, yomou†
Feminine	momou
Neuter	imou
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with Ternate mou (“mute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/

Verb

mou

1. (stative) to be mute

Conjugation

Conjugation of mou (stative verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		timou	mimou	amou
2nd person		nimou	fimou
3rd person	inanimate	imou	dimou
	animate	mamou
imperative		—, mou	—, mou

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as mow)

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmuːᴬ (“pig”). Cognate with Thai หมู (mǔu), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, Lao ໝູ (mū), Lü ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), Tai Dam ꪢꪴ, Tai Nüa ᥛᥧᥴ (mú), Shan မူ (mǔu), Ahom 𑜉𑜥 (mū), Bouyei mul, Nong Zhuang mu, Saek หมู่.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /mou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: mou¹
• Hyphenation: mou

Noun

mou (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 𭸘 or 𭸙 or 𤝖 or 某 or 𭸲, 1957–1982 spelling mou)

1. pig

Derived terms

• moucauz
• mouraemx
• mouseng
• mouraq
• moumehrangx
• mousij
• songzmou
• muimou
• sugmou
• roengqmou
• mougo
• moumixsan
• mougyauh
• mouraih
• mouduenh
• moulangz
• mougangq
• mouhaeuxsan
• mougvaqcauz
• moubing
• mounoh