mole

Betekenis (English)

A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.

Synonyms

birthmark

wart

breakwater

nevus

jetty

freckle

seawall

groin

scar

bulwark

pier

mol

blemish

spot

groyne

naevus

melanism

blotch

bamboo rat

spy

beauty spot

sea wall

beauty mark

musk-rat

counterspy

gram molecule

shrew

stain

Arvicola

Talpa micrura

genus Rhizomys

port-wine stain

common mole

croy

projecting pier

mold-warp

moldwarp

moldwerp

molworp

Northern mole

Mol

slepper

bank

🏦

beauty-spot

dam

dike

dormouse

dots

embankment

eyelid

foreign agent

hairy

levee

mark

moth

mouse

🐭

nark

plant

🌱

quay

rat

🐀

sleeper

tattoo

wharf

espionage agent

giant rat

papule

spiloma

mole rat

European mole

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/məʊl/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: mole

Inherited from Old English: māl

Cognate with Skots: mail

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Moal

Cognate with Duits: -

Cognate with Goties: 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻

Inherited from Middle English: molle

Cognate with Noord-Fries: mull

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: molle

Cognate with Nederlands: mol

Cognate with Nederduits: Mol

Cognate with Duits: Molch

Cognate with Russies: смолжь

Cognate with Tsjeggies: mlž

Cognate with Middle English: molewarpe

In summary

From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).
Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).