mothe

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English

Etymology

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Back-formation from mother.

Pronunciation

Verb

mothe (third-person singular simple present mothes, present participle mothing, simple past and past participle mothed)

  1. (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
  2. (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

Old Prussian

Noun

mothe

  1. Alternative form of mūti
    • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
      Muter   Mothe

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English mot, from Old English mot.

Pronunciation

Noun

mothe (plural mothès)

  1. mote, particle, single straw or part of one.

References

  • 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