mony

mony (countable and uncountable, plural monies)

1. Obsolete form of money.
   • 1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] J[ames] O[rme] for R[ichard] Wellington, […], and Sam[uel] Briscoe […], →OCLC, act III, page 30:

     Bell[inda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartfr[ee]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bell[inda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlyer got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

• -nomy, -onym, myon

From Proto-Uralic *muna. Cognates include Northern Mansi мӯӈи (mūňi) and Finnish muna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoɲ]

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• Hyphenation: mony
• Rhymes: -oɲ

mony (plural monyok)

1. (archaic, dialectal) Synonym of tojás (“egg”)
2. (archaic, dialectal) Synonym of here (“testicle”)
3. (archaic, dialectal) Synonym of hímvessző (“penis”)

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• mony in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• nyom

From Proto-Cariban *mônɨ.

• IPA^(key): [moːnɨ]

mony

1. the inanimate singular invisible distal demonstrative pronoun; that (that I can’t see)

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 53–54, 319
• Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages‎^[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “monï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 297; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[3], Paris, 1956, page 291
• Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “mony”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎^[4], University of Oregon, page 773

mony

1. Alternative form of moneye

• monie

mony

1. many
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.
     'Just an auld packman,' says he, 'nae name ye wad ken, but kin to mony gentle houses.'

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