monoie

Middle English

Noun

monoie

1. Alternative form of moneye

Old French

Alternative forms

• menoie, menoiie, moneie, monoë, monnoie, monnoye, monoye
• muneie (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From earlier moneie, *moneide, inherited from Latin monēta.

Pronunciation

• (early) IPA^(key): /moˈnei̯(ð)ə/, /məˈnei̯(ð)ə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /muˈnoi̯ə/, /məˈnoi̯ə/

Noun

monoie oblique singular, f (oblique plural monoies, nominative singular monoie, nominative plural monoies)

1. money, coinage

Descendants

• Middle French: monnoye, monnoie
  • French: monnaie
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: mounàie
• Norman: mounaie
• Picard: monnouaie
• → Middle English: moneye (see there for further descendants)
• →? Walloon: manoye

References

• “monnaie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.