mot
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom French mot. Doublet of motto.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmot (plural mots)
- 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.
- (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
- With his big title, an Italian mot
- 1863, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
- Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
- (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock
Etymology 2
editProbably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”) and moth (“girlfriend”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun
editmot (plural mots)
- (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.
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
- (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.
Anagrams
editAlbanian
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editmot m (plural mote, definite moti, definite plural motet)
Declension
editDerived terms
editCompounds
editRelated terms
editAdverb
editmot
References
edit- ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 274–5.
Catalan
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare French mot.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmot m (plural mots)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar
editNoun
editmot
- fashion
- Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Dutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch motte. Cognate to English moth, German Motte.
Noun
editmot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
- butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)
- Hyponyms: nachtvlinder, uil
Derived terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editAn onomatopoeia.
Noun
editmot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
Etymology 3
editFrom Middle Low German mutte.
Noun
editmot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
Derived terms
editEtymology 4
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editmot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)
- light rain; drizzle
Related terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited 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- IPA(key): /mo/
Audio; “un mot” [ɛ̃ˈmo]: (file) - Rhymes: -o
- Homophones: maux, mots
- (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA(key): /mɔ/
Noun
editmot m (plural mots)
- 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.
- note, (short) message
- answer to an enigma
Derived terms
edit- à mots couverts
- arracher les mots de la bouche
- au bas mot
- avoir le dernier mot
- avoir son mot à dire
- bon mot
- chercher ses mots
- demi-mot
- donner le mot
- en un mot
- fin mot
- gros mot
- jeu de mots
- jouer sur les mots
- manger ses mots
- mot à mot
- mot ad hoc
- mot caché
- mot composé
- mot de Cambronne
- mot de la fin
- mot de passe
- mot d’esprit
- mot d’ordre
- mot grammatical
- mot juste
- mot lexical
- mot magique
- mot pour mot
- mot souche
- mots croisés
- motus
- ne pas mâcher ses mots
- ne pas piper mot
- ne souffler mot
- ordre des mots
- passer le mot
- peser ses mots
- prendre au mot
- qui ne dit mot consent
- sans mot dire
- sans piper mot
- toucher deux mots
- toucher un mot
- tout de suite les grands mots
- une image vaut mille mots
Further reading
edit- “mot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English mot.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmot (plural motes)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “mōt, n.1”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editFrom Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editDescendants
edit- Yola: mot
References
edit- “mọ̄t, n.4”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
editFrom Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editmot (plural mots)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “mọ̄t, n.3”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
editVerb
editmot
- first/third-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)
Middle French
editNoun
editmot m (plural mots)
Descendants
edit- French: mot
Norwegian Bokmål
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editmot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota or motene)
- a meeting
Derived terms
editEtymology 3
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Preposition
editmot
- to, towards
- Kjør mot byen. ― Drive towards town.
- against, from
- En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet! ― An umbrella protects you from the rain!
- against, versus
- Det var et kappløp mot tiden. ― It was a race against time.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “mot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editmot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editmot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota)
- a meeting
Derived terms
editEtymology 3
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Preposition
editmot
- to, towards
- Han kom mot dei. ― He came towards them.
- against, from; for
- Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase? ― Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?
- against, versus
- Kven skal me spela mot? ― Who shall we play against?
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “mot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin muttum.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editmot m (plural mots)
Old English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editmōt
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).
Noun
editmōt f
Declension
editDescendants
editSee also
editOld French
editEtymology 1
editFrom Late Latin muttum.
Noun
editmot oblique singular, m (oblique plural moz or motz, nominative singular moz or motz, nominative plural mot)
Descendants
edit- French: mot
Etymology 2
editSee molt
Adjective
editmot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)
- Alternative form of molt
Adverb
editmot
- Alternative form of molt
Old Occitan
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAlternative forms
editAdverb
editmot
Etymology 2
editFrom Late Latin muttum.
Noun
editmot m (oblique plural motz, nominative singular motz, nominative plural mot)
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “muttum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 303
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmot n
- (chiefly west Sweden) A point where two or more objects meet (e.g. the joint of two bones).
- (chiefly west Sweden) A slip road or flyover.
- (chiefly west Sweden) An interchange; a large junction where two or more roads meet.
- (Ostrobothnia) A passing place.
- Synonym: mötesplats
Declension
editDeclension of mot | ||||
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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
editmot
- to, towards
- Kör mot stan. ― Drive towards the town.
- against
- Det där är mot lagen! ― That’s against the law!
- versus
Derived terms
editFurther reading
editAnagrams
editTocharian B
editNoun
editmot
Volapük
editNoun
editmot (nominative plural mots)
- mother
- 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.
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- balidhimotäb
- balidjimotäb
- balidmotam
- balidmoted
- balidmotedagität
- balidmotäb
- benomoted
- benomotedik
- bleinamotäb
- bubülimotön (intransitive verb)
- bütüpmoted
- dalemot
- dolafulamot
- emotölan
- famülamot
- fatamot
- gemotam
- jevodülimotön (intransitive verb)
- jipülamot
- jipülimotön (intransitive verb)
- lebenomoted
- lebenomotedik
- lemot
- lemoted
- lemotedik
- lesiöramoted
- lesiöramotedik
- lifamotam
- lifamotamik
- lumot
- lumotik
- lumotiko
- lumoto
- lümot
- lümotik
- lümotiko
- lümoto
- lümotül
- mot obik vobof delo e neito
- motafat
- motafatik
- motalad
- motaladäl
- motalöf
- motam
- motamik
- motamot
- motamotik
- motan
- moted
- motedadel
- motedadom
- motedadät
- motedagität
- motedalepenäd
- motedalän
- motedazif
- motedazäl
- motedazöt
- motedöp
- motik
- motiko
- motil
- moto
- motön
- motül
- nulomotäb
- pamotön
- pemotöl
- pludalemot
- skömamoted
- skömamotedik
- svinülimotön (intransitive verb)
- telidmoted
- telidmotedagität
See also
editWalloon
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmot m (plural mots)
Derived terms
editYola
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
editPreposition
editmot
- 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
editFrom Middle English mot, from Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmot
- asking (a charge on goods)
Etymology 3
editPerhaps from Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, say”), from Old English mōtian.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmot
- 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;
Etymology 4
editNoun
editmot
- Alternative form of mothe (“mote”)
References
edit- 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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