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mooi.

beautiful, pretty, handsome

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

adj/moːi̯/

  1. beautiful, pretty, handsome

    Wat een mooi meisje.
    Ik ben te mooi om te werken.

  2. nice, good

    Mooi werk!
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch mooy, moy, from Old Dutch mōi (“beautiful, trim, neat”, attested in nicknames), further origin uncertain; possibly from Proto-West Germanic *mauwī (“clean, washed”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *mawjaz, *maujaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“to wet, wash”). Further etymology unknown. Cognate with Middle Low German môi, môie (whence German Low German mooi (“beautiful”)).

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