mony

See also: -mony

English

Noun

mony (countable and uncountable, plural monies)

1. Obsolete form of money.
   • 1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] J[ames] O[rme] for R[ichard] Wellington, […], and Sam[uel] Briscoe […], →OCLC, act III, page 30:

     Bell[inda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartfr[ee]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bell[inda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlyer got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

Anagrams

• -nomy, -onym, myon

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *muna. Cognates include Northern Mansi мӯӈи (mūňi) and Finnish muna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoɲ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mony
• Rhymes: -oɲ

Noun

mony (plural monyok)

1. (archaic, dialectal) synonym of tojás (“egg”)
2. (archaic, dialectal) synonym of here (“testicle”)
3. (archaic, dialectal) synonym of hímvessző (“penis”)

Declension

Originally:

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	mony	monyak
accusative	monyat	monyakat
dative	monynak	monyaknak
instrumental	monnyal	monyakkal
causal-final	monyért	monyakért
translative	monnyá	monyakká
terminative	monyig	monyakig
essive-formal	monyként	monyakként
essive-modal	monyul	—
inessive	monyban	monyakban
superessive	monyon	monyakon
adessive	monynál	monyaknál
illative	monyba	monyakba
sublative	monyra	monyakra
allative	monyhoz	monyakhoz
elative	monyból	monyakból
delative	monyról	monyakról
ablative	monytól	monyaktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	monyé	monyaké
non-attributive possessive – plural	monyéi	monyakéi

Possessive forms of mony

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	monyam	monyaim
2nd person sing.	monyad	monyaid
3rd person sing.	monya	monyai
1st person plural	monyunk	monyaink
2nd person plural	monyatok	monyaitok
3rd person plural	monyuk	monyaik

alternatively:

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	mony	monyok
accusative	monyt	monyokat
dative	monynak	monyoknak
instrumental	monnyal	monyokkal
causal-final	monyért	monyokért
translative	monnyá	monyokká
terminative	monyig	monyokig
essive-formal	monyként	monyokként
essive-modal	monyul	—
inessive	monyban	monyokban
superessive	monyon	monyokon
adessive	monynál	monyoknál
illative	monyba	monyokba
sublative	monyra	monyokra
allative	monyhoz	monyokhoz
elative	monyból	monyokból
delative	monyról	monyokról
ablative	monytól	monyoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	monyé	monyoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	monyéi	monyokéi

Possessive forms of mony

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	monyom	monyaim
2nd person sing.	monyod	monyaid
3rd person sing.	monya	monyai
1st person plural	monyunk	monyaink
2nd person plural	monyotok	monyaitok
3rd person plural	monyuk	monyaik

Derived terms

• monyos
• monyú

Compound words

• galambtyúkmony
• lúdtyúkmony
• tikmony
• tyúkmony

Further reading

• mony in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Anagrams

• nyom

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mônɨ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moːnɨ]

Pronoun

mony

1. the inanimate singular invisible distal demonstrative pronoun; that (that I can’t see)

Inflection

Kari'na demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun		animate pronoun
		singular	plural	singular	plural
proximal	visible	ero	erokon	mose	mòsaro(n), mojan, mòsékonV
	invisible	eny	enykon
medial		—	—	mòko	mòkaro(n)
distal	visible	moro	morokon	moky	mòkan, mókykonV
	invisible	mony	monykon
anaphoric		iro	irokon	inoro	inaro(n), inorokonV

^V Venezuelan dialect.

Derived terms

• monypan

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 53–54, 319
• Meira, Sérgio (2002), “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages‎, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “monï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 297; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 291
• Yamada, Racquel-María (2010), “mony”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎, University of Oregon, page 773

Middle English

Noun

mony

1. alternative form of moneye

Scots

Alternative forms

• monie

Determiner

mony

1. many
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.
     'Just an auld packman,' says he, 'nae name ye wad ken, but kin to mony gentle houses.'

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)