moya

See also: móyá

English

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Noun

moya (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [1800s until the 1930s]

Synonyms

• mud lava, volcanic mud

Further reading

• “moya”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “moya”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Amoy, Mayo, mayo

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Buruwai

Noun

moya

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

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Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. wind

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Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya class 3 (uncountable)

1. wind