mok

mok

1. water

• Catherine Levy, 2002, A tentative description of Awar phonology and morphology (Lower Ramu family, Papua-New Guinea), Univ. libre de Bruxelles. (Doctoral dissertation, Université Libre de Bruxelles; 289pp.), page 22

• IPA^(key): /mɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

Probably related to Old Dutch *mocha (“piece, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkan- (“bump, lump”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *muk- (“heap”), similar to Ancient Greek μύκων (múkōn, “pile”). Compare Old English mūga, Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”).^[1][2]

mok f or m (plural mokken, diminutive mokje n)

1. mug, large cup with handle

• Berbice Creole Dutch: moku
• Skepi Creole Dutch: mok

17th century, alternative form of muik, from Middle Dutch muyck, from Proto-West Germanic *mūk-, *mukk-, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *mūkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mewg- (“slimy, slippery”).^[3][4] Cognate with German Mauke, which see.

mok f (uncountable)

1. mud fever (infection of a horse’s lower limb)

See the lemma.

mok

1. inflection of mokken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• kom

mok

1. Alternative form of muk

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /moːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: mok⁷
• Hyphenation: mok

From Proto-Tai *ʰmoːkᴰ (“fog”), from Old Chinese 霧 (OC *moɡs, “fog; mist”).^[1] Cognate with Thai หมอก (mɔ̀ɔk), Lao ໝອກ (mǭk), Lü ᦖᦸᧅᧈ (ṁoak¹), Shan မွၵ်ႇ (màuk), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜀𑜫 (mok), Nong Zhuang moag or mog, Saek ม̄อก.

mok (Sawndip forms 瞙 or 漠 or 𭯷 or ⿹⺄木 or 雬 or 𩄻 or 𭰄 or ⿺沫𠃑, 1957–1982 spelling mok)

1. fog

   Synonyms: (dialectal) mojlox, (dialectal) mouh

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mok (Sawndip forms 糢 or 莫 or 漠 or 𰛙 or 洣 or ⿰米未 or 饃, 1957–1982 spelling mok)

1. white liquid in unripe grain; juice
2. swill; slops

   Synonyms: samj, (dialectal) saemj