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moch.

pigs, swine, hogs

4 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/moːχ/

  1. pigs, swine, hogs

    plural

  2. pigs, swine, hogs greedy, dirty, lazy, drunk, or immoral persons

    figuratively · plural

  3. small pumps used underground in coal mines to remove water

    plural

  4. crushers (in quarrying)

    plural

  5. ridging-ploughs

    plural

  6. segments (of orange, etc.)

    plural
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Brythonic *mox (“pig”), from Proto-Celtic *mokkus.

adv/moːχ/

  1. soon, early

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh moch, from Proto-Brythonic *mox (“early, soon”), from Proto-Celtic *moxs, from Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Latin mox (“soon”).

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