muy

See also: muþ

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish muy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊi/, /mui/, /mɔɪ/, /mwiː/

Adverb

muy (not comparable)

1. (informal, US, chiefly in Latin-American contexts) Very.
   • 1995 November 30, Drema Crist, Janette Park, Marc Sorace, “Last-Second Sound Bites”, in The Chronicle, Duke University:

     Spacehog are a perfectly nice band, with pleasantly strummed guitars, a crisp pop sensibility, and muy cute vocals on this side of awkward, but after Blur, Ride, Lush, Oasis, Stone Roses, Elastica, and what have you, Resident Alien is just the proverbial straw on this overworked and overbroke camel's back.

   • 1999, Terri de la Peña, Faults, Alyson Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 163:

     In her rosy two-piece traveling outfit, Adela looks muy cute as she walks toward us.

   • 2007 June 9, John Lannert, “Crossover King”, in Billboard:

     But such is the case with Enrique Iglesias, the muy handsome son of Julio, who is known to his fans these days simply as Enrique.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:muy.

Anagrams

• Yum, yum

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʷɨ/

Noun

muy

1. Alternative form of amuy

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
• Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1991. El vocabulario mosco de 1612. En estudios de Lingüística Chibcha. Programa de investigación del departamento de lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Serie Anual Tomo X San José (Costa Rica). Universidad de Costa Rica.

Ladino

Etymology

From muito, from Latin multus (“much, many”).

Adverb

muy (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מויי)

1. very

Portuguese

Adverb

muy

1. Obsolete spelling of mui.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish muito, from Latin multus (“much, many”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmui/ [ˈmui̯]
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Syllabification: muy
• IPA^(key): /ˈmwi/ [ˈmwi]
  • Rhymes: -i

Adverb

muy

1. very

   Synonyms: re-, -ísimo

   Tengo un coche muy caro.

   I have a very expensive car.

Derived terms

• muy pero que muy
• pero que muy

 

See also

• mucho

Further reading

• “muy”, in Diccionario 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

Tzotzil

Verb

muy

1. (intransitive) to climb

   muy ta teʼ / vits

   to climb (a) tree / mountain

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.