moan

Meanings

Noun

• a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure

Verb

• To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
• To grieve.
• To distress (someone); to sadden.
• To make a moan or similar sound.
• To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
• To complain; to grumble.

Origin

• From Middle English mone, mane, man, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō ("opinion; mind").
• Cognate with Old Frisian mēne ("opinion"), Old High German meina ("opinion"). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan ("to complain over; grieve; mourn"). More at mean.