mooi
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch mooi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːi̯/
Audio (file)
Adjective
mooi (attributive mooie, comparative mooier, superlative mooiste)
- beautiful, pretty
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch môi, môie, further origin unknown; possibly inherited from Old Dutch *mōi, from Proto-West Germanic *mauwī, *mawjaz (“clean, washed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːi̯/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: mooi
- Rhymes: -oːi̯
Adjective
mooi (comparative mooier, superlative mooist)
- beautiful, pretty, handsome
- Wat een mooi meisje. ― What a beautiful girl.
- Ik ben te mooi om te werken. ― I'm too beautiful to work.
- nice, good
- Mooi werk! ― Nice work!
Inflection
| Inflection of mooi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | mooi | |||
| inflected | mooie | |||
| comparative | mooier | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | mooi | mooier | het mooist het mooiste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | mooie | mooiere | mooiste |
| n. sing. | mooi | mooier | mooiste | |
| plural | mooie | mooiere | mooiste | |
| definite | mooie | mooiere | mooiste | |
| partitive | moois | mooiers | — | |
Descendants
- Afrikaans: mooi, mōi, mui, mooj
- Berbice Creole Dutch: moi
- Jersey Dutch: mûi
- Negerhollands: mooi, mooj, mui
- Skepi Creole Dutch: moi, moye
- → Aukan: moi
- → Caribbean Hindustani: moi
- → Kwinti: moi
- → North Frisian: mooi
- → Saterland Frisian: mooi
- → Scots: moy
- → Saramaccan: moi
- → Sranan Tongo: moi
- → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: moime
- → West Frisian: moai
See also
"mooi" on etymologiebank.nl