Möwe

Meaning

gull, seagull

Synonyms

Seemöwe

Miau

Miauen

Möve

Möwenvogel

Sturmmöwe

Frequency

23k
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

meewe

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Hyphenated as
Mö‧we
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmøːvə/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Middle Low German mêwe, mêve, from Old Saxon *mēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *maiwā, from Proto-Germanic *maiwaz. Cognate with German Low German Mööv, Meev, Dutch meeuw, English mew, Old Norse már.

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