mot

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From French mot. Doublet of motto.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊ

Noun[edit]

mot (plural mots)

  1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
    • 1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review:
      Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.
    • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 32:
      ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
  2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
  3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot (plural mots)

  1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
    • 1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎[1], published 1896:
      Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.
    • 1829 July 1, Vidocq, Eugène François; Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎[2], number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133:
      And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.
  2. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
  3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
    • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:
      After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *māti (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (“measurement”), deverbative of *meh₁- (“to measure”); compare Old English mǣþ (“measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas (“time”), Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “plan”).[1] Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather, year, era’ influenced by Latin tempus (“time, weather”) (compare Romanian timp, French temps).

Noun[edit]

mot m (indefinite plural mote, definite singular moti, definite plural motet)

  1. weather
    Synonym: qëro (archaic)
  2. year
  3. era, times (uncountable)

Declension[edit]

Declension of mot
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mot mote moti motet
accusative motin
dative moti moteve motit motevet
ablative motesh

Derived terms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mot

  1. next year

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 274–5.

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare French mot.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
    Synonym: paraula

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Crimean Tatar[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot

  1. fashion
    Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar
    Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch motte. Cognate to English moth, German Motte.

Noun[edit]

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Negerhollands: mot
  • → Papiamentu: mot (dated)

Etymology 2[edit]

An onomatopoeia.

Noun[edit]

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. a slap, a blow, a hit (physical aggression with hands or fists)
  2. (by extension) a quarrel, tiff

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle Low German mutte.

Noun[edit]

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. a female pig; a sow
    Synonym: zeug
  2. (by extension) a lewd woman
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. light rain; drizzle
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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttīre (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Has almost entirely replaced parole in Modern French, perhaps because of its brevity. Compare Catalan mot.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
    Synonym: parole
    • 1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire‎[3], page 43:
      Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d'images qu'un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.
      The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.
  2. note, (short) message
    Synonyms: message, note

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English mot.

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot (plural motes)

  1. speck, particle
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot (plural motes or moteez)

  1. (Early Middle English, rare) tax
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

mot

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)

Middle French[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Descendants[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse mót.

Noun[edit]

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota or motene)

  1. a meeting
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition[edit]

mot

  1. to, towards
    Kjør mot byen. ― Drive towards town.
  2. against, from
    En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet! ― An umbrella protects you from the rain!
  3. against, versus
    Det var et kappløp mot tiden. ― It was a race against time.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from mot (preposition)

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse mót.

Noun[edit]

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota)

  1. a meeting
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition[edit]

mot

  1. to, towards
    Han kom mot dei. ― He came towards them.
  2. against, from; for
    Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase? ― Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?
  3. against, versus
    Kven skal me spela mot? ― Who shall we play against?
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from mot (preposition)

References[edit]

Occitan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin muttum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Old English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

mōt

  1. first/third-person singular present of motan

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).

Noun[edit]

mōt f

  1. toll
  2. tax
Declension[edit]
Declension of mot (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mōt mōta, mōte
accusative mōte mōta, mōte
genitive mōte mōta
dative mōte mōtum
Descendants[edit]

See also[edit]

Old French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Late Latin muttum.

Noun[edit]

mot m (oblique plural moz or motz, nominative singular moz or motz, nominative plural mot)

  1. word
    Synonym: (more common) parole
Descendants[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See molt

Adjective[edit]

mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)

  1. Alternative form of molt

Adverb[edit]

mot

  1. Alternative form of molt

Old Occitan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin multus.

Alternative forms[edit]

Adverb[edit]

mot

  1. much; a lot

Etymology 2[edit]

From Late Latin muttum.

Noun[edit]

mot m (oblique plural motz, nominative singular motz, nominative plural mot)

  1. word

References[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot n

  1. (chiefly west Sweden) A point where two or more objects meet (e.g. the joint of two bones).
  2. (chiefly west Sweden) A slip road or flyover.
  3. (chiefly west Sweden) An interchange; a large junction where two or more roads meet.
  4. (Ostrobothnia) A passing place.
    Synonym: mötesplats

Declension[edit]

Declension of mot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mot motet mot moten
Genitive mots motets mots motens

Derived terms[edit]

  • ledamot (“body part; board member”)

Preposition[edit]

mot

  1. to, towards
    Kör mot stan. ― Drive towards the town.
  2. against
    Det där är mot lagen! ― That’s against the law!
  3. versus

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Tocharian B[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot

  1. alcohol
  2. alcoholic beverage

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot (nominative plural mots)

  1. mother
    Synonym: jifat
    Hypernym: pal
    Coordinate term: fat

Declension[edit]

declension of mot
singular plural
nominative mot mots
genitive mota motas
dative mote motes
accusative moti motis
vocative 1 o mot! o mots!
predicative 2 motu motus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms[edit]

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Walloon[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Derived terms[edit]

Yola[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Unknown. Perhaps from Middle English but, from Old English būtan.

Preposition[edit]

mot

  1. but

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English mot, from Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō.

Noun[edit]

mot

  1. asking (A charge on goods)

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

mot

  1. Alternative form of mothe

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 57
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