# moin
## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* måln (Southern Bavarian)

### Etymology

From Middle High German mālen, from Old High German mālōn, mālēn, denominative of māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mālijan, from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“dark color”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔe̯n/
* Homophone: moihn

### Verb

moin (past participle gmoit) (Central Bavarian)
* (intransitive) to paint (do paintwork)
* (transitive or intransitive) to paint (create a painting)
* (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)

#### Derived terms

* åmoin
* aufmoin
* omoin

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin manus.

### Noun

moin f (plural moins)
* hand

## Finnish
### Noun

moin
* instructive plural of moa

### Anagrams

* -nomi, moni, moni-, omin

## German
### Alternative forms

* Moin
* Moin, Moin; moin, moin; moin moin (might be perceived as foreign or artificial in some regions, e.g. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

### Etymology

From, or from the same source as, German Low German moin, beyond which the etymology is not clear; see that entry for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔːɪn/, /mɔːɪŋ/, /mɔɪn/
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* Rhymes: -ɔːɪn

### Interjection

moin
* (colloquial, originally Northern Germany, nautical) hi

#### Usage notes

Increasingly used outside of Northern Germany.

### Further reading

* “moin [moin], Moin, [Moin]” in Duden online
* “moin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* moin on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$
* moin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## German Low German
### Etymology

The etymology is not clear.
* It stems possibly from moi, moie, moien (“nice, bright, shiny”), from Middle Low German [Term?], thus meaning would be '(have a) good one'. This would explain the pronunciation with /ŋ/ in some areas, which would stem from regular inflection of Low German moi.
* It is also possible that this word is a borrowing from a Frisian language, which would explain the vowel sequence /ɔːɪ/, which does not naturally occur in almost any Low German dialect.
* Further, many sources say that the word comes from the Berlin area, representing the local pronunciation of German Morgen (“morning”): [mɔɐ̯jɘn]. The pronunciation would come either from local Low German (where the word was pronounced [mɔrʝɘn]) and then have undergone r-vocalisation, or from early modern Upper Saxonian (/mɔˤjən/ or something similar), which is the German dialect that initially replaced Low German in Berlin. The word was understood as 'moin' by the rhotic dialects surrounding the city and spread north from them.
* Should this word be a West Frisian or Berlinian borrowing, it is likely that it was later conflated with the Low German word moi (/moːɪ/).
* A descent, at least partially, from a lost West Slavic dialect has also been hypothesized.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔːɪn/
* IPA: /mɔːɪŋ/

### Interjection

moin
* (informal) hi

#### Descendants

* → Saterland Frisian: moin
* → Kashubian: mòjn

### References

* ↑ Br. v. Braunthal, Berliner Conversation. In den Akademiesälen, in: Berliner Conversations-Blatt für Poesie, Literatur und Kritik. Zweiter Jahrgang, 1828, p. 799ff.
* ↑ Willy Lademann: Wörterbuch der Teltower Volkssprache (Telschet Wöderbuek), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956

## Kairiru
### Noun

moin
* woman

### Further reading

* Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
* Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

## North Frisian
### Etymology

From German Low German moin. Cognate to Kashubian mòjn.

### Interjection

moin
* (informal) hi

## Saterland Frisian

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German moin. Cognate to Kashubian mòjn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔy̯n/
* Hyphenation: moin
* Rhymes: -ɔy̯n

### Interjection

moin!
* hi! hello!

### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “moin”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN