What is the name meaning of MOY. Phrases containing MOY
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mocháin (see Mohan).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Moyon in La Manche, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Modius (from Latin modus ‘measure’) + the locative suffix -o (genitive -onis).English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French moun ‘monk’ (see Monk).Cornish : nickname for a slender person, from Cornish mon ‘thin’.Korean : variant of Mun.
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Australian, Celtic, Hebrew, Irish
Great; Bitterness
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Irish
The name comes from fionn + ghuala “fair shouldered.†The chieftan King Lir and his wife Aobh had a daughter Fionnoula and three sons Aedh, Conn and Fiachra. When Aodh died Lir’s new wife Aoife was so jealous of her husband’s love for his children that she cast a spell on them and turned them into swans and condemned them to spend 300 years on Lake Daravarragh, 300 years on the Sea of Moyle and 300 years on Innis Glora. However, if they heard a Christian bell in Ireland they would become people again. One morning they were awakened by the sound of a Mass bell. St. Patrick had arrived. The children were brought to him and he baptised them and they have lived on in Irish mythology as the “Children of Lir†(read the legend).
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Jewish
Jewish : variant of Moses.English (Devon and Norfolk) and French : from a medieval variant of the personal name Moses (Middle English Moise, Old French Moïse).
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Australian, Christian, Hebrew, Irish
Wished-for Child; Rebellion; Bitter; Beloved
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Hebrew
Wished-for child; rebellion; bitter.
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Greek
(Μωσῆς) Greek form of Hebrew Moshe, MOYSES means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
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Greek
Variant spelling of Greek Moyses, MOUSES means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
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Irish Celtic
Bitter.
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English (Suffolk, Essex)
English (Suffolk, Essex) : unexplained.French : habitation name from Moye in Haute-Savoie.Dutch (de Moye) : nickname from Middle Dutch moy, moeie, ‘fine’, ‘handsome’, denoting a well-dressed person or a dandy.Spanish : see Moya.
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Irish Celtic
noble.
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English
Variant spelling of English Moira, MOYRA means "obstinacy, rebelliousness" or "their rebellion."Â
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Irish (County Donegal)
Irish (County Donegal) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muighe ‘descendant of Muighe’, of unexplained etymology. The English surname (see 2) has also become established in Ulster.English (Norfolk) : unexplained. Compare Moy 1.French : habitational name from places so called in Aisne and Saône-et-Loire, named in Latin as Modiacum ‘(estate) of Modius’ (see Moya 2).Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway named Moi, from Old Norse mói, the dative case of mór ‘sandy plain’.Chinese : possibly a variant spelling of Mei 1.
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Hungarian
Hungarian form of Greek Moyses, MÓZES means "drawn out."
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Hindu, Indian
My Glory; My Fame
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English
English variant spelling of Celtic Moina, MOYNA means "gentle, soft."
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Irish
The name comes from fionn + ghuala “fair shouldered.†The chieftan King Lir and his wife Aobh had a daughter Fionnoula and three sons Aedh, Conn and Fiachra. When Aodh died Lir’s new wife Aoife was so jealous of her husband’s love for his children that she cast a spell on them and turned them into swans and condemned them to spend 300 years on Lake Daravarragh, 300 years on the Sea of Moyle and 300 years on Innis Glora. However, if they heard a Christian bell in Ireland they would become people again. One morning they were awakened by the sound of a Mass bell. St. Patrick had arrived. The children were brought to him and he baptised them and they have lived on in Irish mythology as the “Children of Lir†(read the legend).
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Irish
An Irish form of Catherine that derives from an older Greek name meaning “clear, pure.†(See also Caitlin.)
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Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Traditional
Lord Rama; Peace; Attained at the Lord's Feet
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Christian, Indian
Vigilant
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Arabic, Muslim
Star; Planet
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Hindu
Early morning, Dawn
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Holy Places
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Muslim
Unique, Singular
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Scottish
Son of the pure one.
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Irish
muirne means “high-spirited, festive.†Muirne loved Conall who was from an opposing tribe. Her father, a druid, opposed the match and had Conall killed but not before Muirne had conceived a son, who grew up to be the legendary warrior Fionn Mac Cool(read the legend) and who later avenged the death of his father.
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English
English : from a pet form of Wat(t), a short form of Walter.
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n. & v.
See Moil, and Moile.
n.
Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
n.
Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.