Feminin

motte

(Englisch)

  1. (feminine) motte (mound of earth)
  2. (feminine) clod (lump of earth)
  3. (feminine) block, lump (of food etc.)
  4. (colloquial, feminine) pubic mound, mons veneris

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/mɔt/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

Inherited from Old French mote (“mound”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”).

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