mole

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.

Tính thường xuyên

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Phát âm là (IPA)
/məʊl/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

In summary

From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”). Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).

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