motte
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From French motte, from Anglo-Norman/Old French motte (“mound, hillock”). Doublet of moat.
Noun[edit]
motte (plural mottes)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
earth mound
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Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms.
Noun[edit]
motte (plural mottes)
- Alternative form of mott
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch mote, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”). Likely influenced by French motte.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
motte f (plural mottes, diminutive mottetje n)
- a raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch; a motte
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French mote (“mound”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
motte f (plural mottes)
- motte (mound of earth)
- clod, lump of earth
- block (of butter)
- (colloquial) (pubic) mound, mons veneris
Further reading[edit]
- “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
motte
- inflection of motten:
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
motte
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