moes

See also: mös

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

moes

1. preterite of moet; had to

   Die kinders moes in haar kar kots.

   The children had to puke in her car.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

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• Hyphenation: moes
• Rhymes: -us

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch moes, from Old Dutch muos, from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą.

Noun

moes f or n (uncountable)

1. mush, pulp (of food)

Derived terms

• appelmoes
• mengelmoes
• moeshof
• moeskruid
• moespap
• moesplant
• moespot
• moestuin
• peelmoes
• warmoes

Etymology 2

Compare moeder, moe.

Noun

moes f (uncountable, diminutive moesje n)

1. (colloquial, often in the diminutive) mom, mother

Estonian

Noun

moes

1. inessive singular of mood

Galician

Verb

moes

1. second-person singular present indicative of moer

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• Mous (Aubel)
• Muus (Eupen, Krefeld, german-based spelling)
• moues (Genk)
• meus (Griendtsveen)
• maus (Tongeren)
• moos (Val-Meer)
• moeës (various dialects)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch muus, from Old Dutch *mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

Noun

moes f (plural muus, diminutive muuske)

1. mouse

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French meis, from Latin mēnsis, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwɛ/, /møː/

Noun

moes m

1. month

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *boɨs, from Proto-Celtic *baissā. The m- replaced the b- under the influence of Latin mōs, reinforced by the ambiguity of the lenited form foes (which could in theory come from either boes or moes).

Cognate to Breton boaz (“custom, habit”).

Attempts to relate this *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”) (via e.g. a Proto-Celtic *banssus) fail to explain the lack of a nasal and the appearance of an oe in Welsh.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /moːɨ̯s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mɔi̯s/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯s

Noun

moes f (plural moesau)

1. morality
2. (in the plural) morals

Derived terms

• moesol (“moral”)

• anfoesol, di-foes (“immoral”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of moes

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
moes	foes	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.