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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
I believe that's "moins," with an "s."
That Wiki article is pretty interesting, apparently there are different varieties of the word/phrase in use in Danish and Finnish dialects also.
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Thanks for that link Frau, I always wondered if 'Moin' had anything to do with my local dialect. Turns out it does
I live in the north east of the Netherlands (not far from the German border in the north-west) and in our dialect 'moi' (so without the 'n') can be used for 'hi' or 'hello' as well as 'goodbye' (we're quite short and brief in our dialect here) In fact, people right across the border in Germany (only a few miles) speak almost the same dialect as here. Here it's called Gronings, across the border they call it Plattdeutsch I believe.
This dialect here is called 'Gronings' though, and not 'Frisian-Gronings' as Wiki states. Some people here might take offense at being called Frisian
But now I finally know that 'moin' is the same as 'my' moi!
So moi! to all of you
Oh, and you're right about the French. Less = Moins