mo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mo"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Moldovan, from Romanian Moldova.

Symbol

mo

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

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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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.
   • 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:

     When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]

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, Matthew xxij:

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of month.

Symbol

mo

2. month

   Alternative forms: mo., mon, m, M

   12 yr 4 mo 17 d

Etymology 3

Noun

mo (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of moment.

   Synonyms: bit, sec, tick; see also Thesaurus: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

Non-rhotic pronunciation of more. 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 and Diddy:

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

Etymology 6

Clipping of moustache.

Noun

mo (plural mos)

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

Derived terms

• Movember

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

See also

• ang mo
• big mo
• eeny-meeny-miney-mo
• fast-mo
• half a mo
• ke-mo sah-bee
• mo-cap
• mo-di
• mo-mo
• mo-ped
• mo qua
• mo shu
• po-mo
• slo-mo

Anagrams

• O&M, O.M., OM, om

Abau

Particle

mo

1. (emphatic) really, even
2. marks the topic of the clause, sentence, or conversation
3. marks the preceding plural NP as genitive (association or possession)
4. indicates the interrogative

Adverb

mo

1. indicates the negative

References

• Abau Dictionary © 2020 SIL International (Available online: )

Abinomn

Noun

mo

1. (anatomy) stomach

Adangme

Pronoun

mo

1. you

   I suɔ mo.

   I love you.

Akan

Pronoun

mo

1. ye, you (plural)

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mos

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mē, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁ (prohibitive particle).

Particle

mo (masculine adjectival i mo, feminine singular e mo, masculine plural të mo, feminine plural të moa)

1. don't

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

Amanab

Noun

mo

1. speech, language, word

Angguruk Yali

Noun

mo

1. sun

References

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

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Noun

mo

1. word

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/ [mo]
• Hyphenation: mo

Pronoun

mo (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓ)

1. second person singular possessive adjective; your

See also

Bikol Central personal pronouns

Person	Number	Absolute		Ergative		Oblique
Length		Full	Short	Full	Short
First	singular	ako		ko		sakuya, sako
	plural inclusive	kita		nyato	ta	satuya, sato
	plural exclusive	kami		nyamo	mi	samuya, samo
Second	singular	ika	ka	mo		saimo, simo
	plural	kamo		nindo		saindo
Third	singular	siya		niya		saiya
	plural	sinda		ninda		sainda

Dongxiang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Noun

mo

1. road, path

   nie fade bi zhin mo jiere yawuzhi saozhi wo.

   one time I was walking on the road.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /mo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: mo

Noun

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

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoˣ/, [ˈmo̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification^(key): mo
• Hyphenation^(key): mo

Interjection

mo

1. (slang, colloquial) clipping of moi (“hi, hello”)

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʊ]

Contraction

mo (plural mos, feminine singular ma, feminine plural mas)

1. contraction of me +‎ o

   Damo! ― Give it to me!

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mot (“word”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

• Audio:

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Noun

mo

1. word