moya

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

moya (countable and uncountable, plural moyas)

1. (obsolete, geology) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [from 1800s–1930s]
   • 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:

     These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.

• mud lava, volcanic mud, tufaceous mud

• “moya”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “moya”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Amoy, Mayo, mayo

moya

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

moya

1. air
2. wind

From Sudanese Arabic موية (mōya), from Arabic مُوَيْئة (muwayʔa), a diminutive of ماء (māʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoja/, [ˈmo.ja]

moya

1. water

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

môya

1. wind

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

moya

1. wind

• IPA^(key): /mɔ(˧).ja˧/

moya

1. colour.

• nv̀mya

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

moya class 3 (uncountable)

1. wind

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀jòjò (“life, spirit”).

moya class 3

1. wind