mooi

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mooi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːi̯/

Adjective

mooi (attributive mooie, comparative mooier, superlative mooiste)

  1. beautiful, pretty

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch moy, from Old Dutch *mōi (“nice, pleasant, clean”), from Proto-Germanic *mawjaz (“clean, washed”), from Proto-Indo-European *mou-io- (“washed”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew(ə)- (“to wash, wet”). Cognate with Middle Low German moie (“nice, sheen”) (Low German moi (“pretty, good, nice”)), Middle Low German mūten (“to wash the face”), and possibly to Latin mundus (“clean, neat, elegant”). More at mundation.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -oːi̯
  • IPA(key): /moːi̯/
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Adjective

mooi (comparative mooier, superlative mooist)

  1. beautiful, pretty, handsome
    Wat een mooi meisje. ― What a beautiful girl.
    Ik ben te mooi om te werken. ― I'm too beautiful to work.
  2. 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 —

See also

"mooi" on etymologiebank.nl

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