Moin

***Moin*** (Template:IPA-fy), ***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, although some authors claim it is regarded by locals as tourists' usage.

The German comic character Werner always greets with *Moin*.

## Etymology and usage

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Many peopleTemplate:Who? 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* (Template:IPA-fi) 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 ut Westerend, Volker (2004). *Nordseefische gehen auf Wurm: Schöne Ferien an der Waterkant. Der lustigste Urlaubsratgeber am plattdeutschen Strand* (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 11–12. ISBN 3-8334-0025-0. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
2. ↑ Plattmaster.de, Moinmoin - wat heet dat?. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bormann, Andreas (2005). *Nordseeküste Schleswig-Holstein* (in German) (2nd ed.). Mair Dumont Marco Polo. p. 15. ISBN 3-8297-0302-3. Retrieved 2011-05-31.

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