Moin

Moin (), moi or mòjn is a Danish, Frisian, Kashubian and Low German greeting from East Frisia, Southern Schleswig (including North Frisia and Flensburg), Bremen, Hamburg, Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the eastern and northern Netherlands and Southern Jutland in Denmark, meaning "hello" and in some places "goodbye".
==Usage==
Moin is used at all times of day, not just in the morning (see Etymology and usage section below). The reduplicated form moin moin is often heard,Plattmaster.de, Moinmoin - wat heet dat?. Retrieved 2011-05-31. although some authors claim it is regarded by locals as tourists' usage.
The German comic character Werner always greets with Moin.
==Etymology and usage==
Many people think that moin derives from various regional pronunciations of (Guten) Morgen ("good morning"), which tend to alter, vocalise, or skip rg. However, the word may actually also derive from the Dutch, Frisian, and Low German word mo(o)i, meaning "beautiful" or "good". Similar forms in Low Saxon are mooien Dag, mooien Abend, mooien Mor(g)en. Possibly, as is common in etymology, one origin is correct (either from Morgen or mooi) but spread thanks to its oral assimilation with the other term.
The Luxembourgish cognate of the word is moien, which can mean either "hi" or "morning" (gudde Moien! means "good morning!").
Unlike Guten Morgen, moin can be used 24 hours a day. It is semantically equivalent to the Low Saxon (Plattdüütsch) greeting Dagg and replaced it in many areas. In Southern Jutish, mojn is used for hello and good bye, but mojn mojn is solely used for good bye. The double form Moin Moin is also used as an all day greeting in for example Flensburg that belonged to Denmark until 1864 and the Swedish region of Scania, part of Denmark until 1658.
==Moi==
In Finland, a similar greeting moi () is used for "hello", "hi" in the Finnish language. However, "moi moi" is used as a good bye, similarly as "bye bye" in English, even with a similar intonation. Both are particularly typical of Southwestern Finnish, but through internal migration to capital from there with the help of TV spread to rest of the language area. Moi's use is identical to hei: diminutive form of heippa & moikka, and the duplication as a good bye. Southwest Finland made commerce with Hanseatic cities, so it is plausible that the greeting was borrowed from their dialects.
Moro is found in some parts of Finland and has also been used in the same way as Moi. It is theorized that is comes from Tampere due to the large amount of foreign workers and like Moi has been borrowed from Morrow and abbreviated.
"Moi" is also used in Dutch Low Saxon dialects.
==See also==
* MoinMoin (wiki software named after the greeting)
==References==
Category:German words and phrases
Category:Kashubian language
Category:Greeting words and phrases
Category:Culture of Schleswig-Holstein
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