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Moin is a Low Saxon greeting from East Frisia, the eastern Netherlands, North Frisia and Flensburg, meaning hello. Its use spread during the first half of the 20th century over the whole of northern Schleswig-Holstein, and is also used in the Danish dialect, Southern Jutish. Due to the German comic character Werner (who always greets with moin), since the 1980s it is used more and more in central Europe as well.
The word derives from the East Frisian Low Saxon word mooi, meaning beautiful. The original forms mooien Dag, mooien Abend, mooien Mor(g)en had been shortened to Moin. Therefore, Moin can be used 24 hours a day. The duplication MoinMoin is used as emphasis and for a more polite form as well. In Southern Jutish, Moin is used for hello and good bye, but MoinMoin is solely used for good bye.
Because of its "WikiWikiNess", the term MoinMoin has been used for the Piki-Piki-based Python WikiClone: MoinMoin.WikiWikiWeb.de (http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/). See MoinMoin.
Moin is also the name of a serpent in Norse mythology, see Nidhogg.
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