FromMaorimoho.

moho (pluralmohos)

1. TheNorth Islandtakahē, anextinctrail ofNew Zealand.

• moho-pereru

FromHawaiianʻōʻō,onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion of its name with themoho(“rail”).

moho (pluralmohos)

1. Synonym ofoo.

• “moho”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “moho,n.1.”, inOED Online⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,2002.

• HOMO,homo,homo-

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móhó

1. together

Unknown, but proposed possibilities include:

• Of expressive origin.^[1]
• AGermanic borrowing, fromOld High German*muff(“mold”) or a similar source.^[2]

ComparePortuguesemofo andItalianmuffa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoo/[ˈmo.o]
• Rhymes:-oo
• Syllabification:mo‧ho

moho m (pluralmohos)

1. mildew(US),mold,mould(UK, AU, CA)
2. (dated)rust

   Synonyms:herrumbre,orín,óxido

• “moho”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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