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mout

See also: MOUT, and moût

English

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mout

  1. Pronunciation spelling of might corresponding to US regional dialect.
    • 1858, Harper's Weekly‎[1]:
      He was quickly silenced, however, by a burly individual, who "reckoned that it mout be jist as well for the stranger to keep his clam-shell shut."

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch malt, mout, from Old Dutch malt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

Cognate with Limburgish maajt, Old Saxon malt, Middle Low German malt, German Low German Molt, Old Frisian malt, Saterland Frisian Moalt, Old English mealt, Middle English malt, English malt, Scots maut, Yola mault, Old High German malz, Middle High German malz, German Malz, Luxembourgish Malz, Kölsch Malz, Old Norse malt, Icelandic malt, Faroese malt, Norwegian Bokmål malt, Swedish malt, Danish malt, Gutnish malt.

More distantly related to Old Prussian maldai, Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ), Russian молодой (molodoj), Czech mladý, Polish młody, Latin mollis, Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdu), Armenian մեղկ (meġk).

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Noun

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mout m (uncountable)

  1. malt

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-general:

-types of malt

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Descendants

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  • → West Frisian: mout

French

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Noun

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mout m (plural mouts)

  1. post-1990 spelling of moût

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mout

  1. Alternative form of molt

Scots

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mout

  1. moult
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