mxn

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Moi (Indonesia) with x as a placeholder.

Symbol

mxn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Moi (Indonesia).

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Moi (Indonesia) terms

English

Etymology

From men +‎ -x-. Respelled to use x (like e.g. Latinx) to convey that the word has a broad scope, and to foreground people of color; compare womxn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mxn (plural mxn)

1. (rare) Feminist spelling of man
   • 2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

     A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?

   • 2019, J. M. J. Marvuso et al., “Overcoming Essentialism in Community Psychology”, in Floretta Boonzaier, Taryn van Niekerk, editors, Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology, Springer, →ISBN, page 12:

     Fundamental to these interventions is how gender is understood and how womxn¹ and mxn are positioned as (non)gendered beings. Central, too, is an understanding of the ways in which womxn and mxn are positioned within these interventions […]

See also

• myn

Anagrams

• nxm