muaj

• Arbanasi: moj, muoj
• Gheg: muie
• Gheg/Arbëreshë:
  • singular: moi
  • plural: monje

From Old Albanian muoj, from Proto-Albanian *mōnja, from *māsnja, from pre-Albanian *māsnion, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (compare English moon, Latin mensis, Tocharian A mañ, Lithuanian mėnuo, Russian ме́сяц (mésjac)).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmuaj]

muaj m (plural muaj, definite muaji, definite plural muajt)

1. month

• muaji i mjaltit

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *n-mɛj (“to have”), possibly related to Chinese 買／买 (mǎi, “to buy”) and 賣／卖 (mài, “to sell”) (and thus muas (“to buy”) and muag (“to sell”)), though the details are unclear. Cognate with Iu Mien maaih.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /muə̯˥˧/

muaj

1. to have, to possess

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.