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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "moin" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "moin" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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So a guy in a Späti was like „moinsen“ while we were talking and i was confused, I can’t remember exactly what was said. Was a while ago and forgot to ask you. Anyway i asked him what it meant and he explained it had to do with moin, which of course i do know. I was a bit unclear if this was a verb as in duzen or siezen but looking online it seems to be an alternative form of moin. One thing i read said it was when addressing a group but i have seen it greeting one person. Any thoughts ? Is there a verb “to moin”
Yeah, it’s just a variation of “moin”. I hear it quite often, too. Not sure which region it belongs to or if people from the coast would even “claim” it.
There’s no verb “moinen”, and for the word “moinsen” the verb should be “moinsenen”. I can kind of see some spoken word artist using this.
thanks for the answer. Moinsenen would definitely not be the easiest to say aloud. Got a tongue twister thing going on…
Actually, on second thought, “moinsen” would work better, I guess.
– Ich moinste dich, du moinstest mich, zwei Blicke im Neonspätilicht.
poetry!