mooi

Meaning

  1. beautiful, pretty, handsome
  2. nice, good

Concepts

beautiful

pretty

nice

fair

handsome

fine

lovely

beautifully

goodly

kind

precious

prettily

bonny

good-looking

become

pleasant

nice-looking

good looking

shapely

seemly

beauteous

bootiful

comely

easy on the eyes

fayre

prettiful

pulchrous

splendiferous

invitingly

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/moːi̯/
Etymology

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 West Frisian moai (“beautiful”), Middle Low German môi, môie (whence German Low German mooi (“beautiful”)).

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