Mauke

Meaning

1. (feminine) mud fever (infection of horses′ lower limbs)
2. (colloquial, derogatory, feminine, plural, regional) foot

Concepts

Mauke

Synonyms

Fuß

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Quadratlatsche

Käsemauke

Fesselekzem

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmaʊ̯kə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German: mūke

Cognate with Middle High German: mūche

Cognate with Middle Dutch: muyck

Cognate with Dutch: muik

In summary

15th century, from Middle Low German mūke, from Proto-West Germanic *mūku. Of unknown further origin; perhaps from Proto-Germanic *mūkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mewg- (“slimy, slippery”).
Cognate with Middle High German mūche (whence dialectal German Mauche) and Middle Dutch muyck (whence Dutch muik, now usually mok). The -au- in Mauke either through conflation with the inherited form or simply through artificial adaptation to the Standard German vowel system. Also cognate slightly farther to English muck and meek.