mouette

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French mouette, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French moette, diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French maoe (Anglo-Norman mave, mauve), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Compare mauvis. More at mew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwɛt/

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Noun

mouette f (plural mouettes)

1. gull; seagull

Further reading

• “mouette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Noun

mouette f (plural mouettes)

1. gull; seagull