muþ

See also: muy, muth, mùth, and muð

Middle English

Noun

muþ

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of mouth

Old English

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muþ

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muþ

cinn

ceoce

eare

þunwange

heals

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Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *munþ.

Cognates

Cognates include Old Frisian mūth, mund, mond (North Frisian müth, West Frisian mûn), Old Saxon mūth, Old Dutch mund (Dutch mond), Old High German mund (German Mund), Old Norse muðr, munnr (Danish mund, Icelandic munnur, Norwegian munn, Swedish mun), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

Noun

mūþ m

1. mouth
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎^[1]:

     Iċ þurh mūþ sprece mongum reordum,…

     I speak with many voices through mouth,…

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þā besēah Martinus wið þǣs sċeoccan lēoht, ġemyndiġ on mōde hū sē Metoda Drihten cwæð on his godspelle þe his godcundan tōcyme, and cwæð tō ðām lēasan mid ġelǣredum mūðe, "Ne sǣde ūre Hǣlend þæt hē swā wolde bēon mid purpuran gehīwod, oððe mid helme scīnende, þonne hē eft cōme mid engla ðrymme." Đā fordwān sē deofol drēoriġ him fram, and sēo stōw ðā stanc mid ormǣtum stenċe, æfter andwerdnysse þǣs eġeslīċan gāstes.

     Then Martinus beheld the demon's light, mindful of what the Lord God said in his gospel about his divine coming, and said to the false one with learned mouth, "Our Savior did not say that he would be habited in purple, or that he would have a shining crown, when he came again with a host of angels." Then the sad devil disappeared, and the place stank with a powerful stench after the presence of the horrible spirit.

2. opening, door, gate

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mūþ	mūþas
accusative	mūþ	mūþas
genitive	mūþes	mūþa
dative	mūþe	mūþum

Derived terms

• mūþlēas

Descendants

• Middle English: mouth, moueþ, mouthe, mouþ, mouþe, muð, muth, muþ (Early Middle English)
  • English: mouth
  • English: (West Yorkshire) maath
  • Scots: mooth
  • Yola: meouth, moweth, mouth

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “muþ”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan