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mot

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English

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Etymology 1

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From French mot. Doublet of motto.

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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

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Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”) and moth (“girlfriend”).

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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, Vidocq, Eugène François with 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, Henry Mayhew, 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

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Etymology

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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).

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

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

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

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Adverb

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mot

  1. next year

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

Catalan

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Etymology

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

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mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
    Synonym: paraula

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Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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mot

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

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch motte, from Proto-West Germanic *mottō, *moþþō, perhaps related to *muggju (“mosquito, midge”),[1] or *maþō (“worm”).[2] Cognate to English moth, German Motte.

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mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)
    Hyponyms: nachtvlinder, uil
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  • Negerhollands: mot
  • → Papiamentu: mot (dated)

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “moth”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Motte”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic.

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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

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From Middle Low German mutte, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“to be dirty, wet”).

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mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. a female pig; a sow
    Synonym: zeug
  2. (by extension) a lewd woman
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Etymology 4

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

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mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. light rain; drizzle
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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French mot, from Old French mot, 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.

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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
  3. answer to an enigma

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English mot.

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Noun

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mot (plural motes)

  1. speck, particle
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Etymology 2

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

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mot (plural motes or moteez)

  1. (Early Middle English, rare) tax
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Etymology 3

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From Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą.

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mot (plural mots)

  1. meeting; assembly
  2. disputation, debate, argument
  3. A company of people.
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Etymology 4

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Verb

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mot

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

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French mot

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mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse mót.

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

  1. a meeting
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Etymology 3

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

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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.
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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

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mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse mót.

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

  1. a meeting
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Etymology 3

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

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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?
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Occitan

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Etymology

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From Late Latin muttum.

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Noun

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mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Old English

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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mōt

  1. first/third-person singular present of motan

Etymology 2

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

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mōt f

  1. toll
  2. tax
  3. meeting
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Strong ō-stem:

singular plural
nominative mōt mōta, mōte
accusative mōte mōta, mōte
genitive mōte mōta
dative mōte mōtum
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Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Late Latin muttum.

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

  1. word
    Synonym: (more common) parole
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Etymology 2

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See molt

Adjective

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mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)

  1. Alternative form of molt

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mot

  1. Alternative form of molt

Old Occitan

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Etymology 1

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From Latin multus.

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mot

  1. much; a lot

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From Late Latin muttum.

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

  1. word

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

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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

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Declension of mot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite mot mots
definite motet motets
plural indefinite mot mots
definite moten motens

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  • ledamot (“body part; board member”)

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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

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Tocharian B

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“mead, honey wine”)

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mot ?

  1. alcohol
  2. alcoholic beverage

Volapük

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mot (nominative plural mots)

  1. mother
    Synonym: jifat
    Hypernym: pal
    Coordinate term: fat
    • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:
      Mot omik: ‚Maria’ ämatirajanof ko ‚Ioseph’, äplakoy, das büä ikobikons, pigrodükof fa Saludalanal.
      His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

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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

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Walloon

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Etymology

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From Late Latin muttum (“sound”)

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mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

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Yola

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English but, from Old English būtan. The b was changed to m as a back-formation from the Irish mutated forms, where *mbot and *bhot were reinterpreted as mot and *mhot.

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mot

  1. but
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:
      Mot w'all aar boust, hi soon was ee-teight
      But with all their bravado they were soon taught
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:
      Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,
      Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:
      Aar was nodhing ee-left mot a heade,
      There was nothing left but the head,
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
      Mot earch oan to aar die. Ich mosth kotch a bat.
      But every one to his day. I must catch the bat.
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Vear'd nodhing mot Portheare. Na skeine e'er ee-waare.
      I feared nothing but Porter. No skein I ever wore.

Etymology 2

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

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mot

  1. asking (a charge on goods)

Etymology 3

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Perhaps from Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, say”), from Old English mōtian.

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mot

  1. to ask
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
      Well, gosp, c'hull be zeid; mot thee fartoo, an fade;
      Well, gossip, it shall be told; you ask what ails me, and for what;

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mot

  1. Alternative form of mothe (“mote”)

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 57
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