Vrouwelijk

motte

Betekenis

Concepten

(Engels)

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

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/mɔt/

Overgenomen van Oudfrans

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”).