moes

• IPA^(key): /mus/

moes

1. preterite of moet; had to

   Die kinders moes in haar kar kots.

   The children had to puke in her car.

• IPA^(key): /mus/

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• Hyphenation: moes
• Rhymes: -us

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

moes f or n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. mush, pulp (of food)

Compare moeder, moe.

moes f (uncountable, diminutive moesje n)

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

moes

1. inessive singular of mood

moes

1. second-person singular present indicative of moer

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

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

moes f (plural muus, diminutive muuske)

1. mouse

moes f pl

1. oblique/nominative plural of moe

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

• IPA^(key): /mwɛ/, /møː/

moes m

1. month

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). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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.

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

moes f (plural moesau)

1. morality
2. (in the plural) morals

• anfoesol, di-foes (“immoral”)
• moesgar (“polite, courteous”)
• moesol (“moral”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “moes”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “moes”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies