English
MoBay
MoBay comes from Jamaican Creole MoBay.
- Jamaican CreolemodernMoBay
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Jamaican CreolemodernMoBay
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
Earliest quotation: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings: “—I'll say that Jamaicans shorten Montego Bay by saying…”
Every English word from Jamaican Creole MoBay
Today it means
name Montego Bay
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Jamaican Creole MoBay / MoBay