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motte

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(Anglais)

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

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/mɔt/

Hérité de ancien français

mote

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”).