muide

Meaning

mouth of a river

Concepts

mouth

Synonyms

monding

riviermond

Translations

desembocadura

Mündung

εκβολές

embouchure

foce

foz

embocadura

desembocadura

desembocadura

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: mude

Inherited from Old Dutch: *muth

In summary

From Middle Dutch mude, from Old Frisian and western Old Dutch *mūtha, an Ingvaeonic variant (with loss of the nasal before a dental consonant, plus concomitant compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel) of Old Dutch munt, whence modern Dutch mond and -monde in place names like IJsselmonde). Both derive from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”). Often encountered in the dative plural form muiden in toponyms, functioning as a dative of location.