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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)
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
Old Prussian
Noun
mothe
- Alternative form of mūti
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- Muter Mothe
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot.
Pronunciation
Noun
mothe (plural mothès)
- 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