mot

sq-noun

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

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

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”). Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather, year, era’ influenced by Latin tempus (“time, weather”) (compare Romanian timp, French temps).


mot

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


mot

Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar

Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.


mot

butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)

nl-noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

motten (plural)
motje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: mot

→ Papiamentu: mot (dated)

From Middle Dutch motte. Cognate to English moth, German Motte.


mot

a slap, a blow, a hit (physical aggression with hands or fists)


mot

Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.

1859, unknown author, “Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold”, in North British Review:

‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.

1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 32:

1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
With his big title, an Italian mot

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock

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:

(obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.


mot

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.

1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896:

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.

1829 July 5, Vidocq, Eugène François with Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133:

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.

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:

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


mot

Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d’images qu’un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.

1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire, page 43:

The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.

Inherited 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.


mot

English: mote

Yola: mothe, mot


mot

Yola: mot

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


mot

English: moot

Scots: mut, mote

Yola: moude, maude, moud

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


mot

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


mot

French: mot


mot

motet (definite singular)
mot (indefinite plural)
mota (definite plural)
motene (definite plural)


mot

Kjør mot byen.

En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet!

Det var et kappløp mot tiden.


mot

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


mot

Han kom mot dei.

Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase?

Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?

Kven skal me spela mot?


mot

first/third-person singular present of motan

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


mot

mōt (canonical feminine)
mōt (nominative singular)
mōta (nominative plural)
mōte (nominative plural)
mōte (accusative singular)
mōta (accusative plural)
mōte (accusative plural)
mōte (genitive singular)
mōta (genitive plural)
mōte (dative singular)
mōtum (dative plural)

Middle English: mot
Yola: mot

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


mot

meeting (encounter, assembly, or confluence)

mōt (canonical neuter)
mōt (nominative singular)
mōt (nominative plural)
mōt (accusative singular)
mōt (accusative plural)
mōtes (genitive singular)
mōta (genitive plural)
mōte (dative singular)
mōtum (dative plural)

mōtærn

building where a meeting is held, courthouse

mōtian

to converse, address an assembly, or discuss an issue


mot

fro-noun

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

mot oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
moz (oblique plural)
motz (oblique plural)
moz (nominative singular)
motz (nominative singular)
mot (nominative plural)

French: mot


mot

head

mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)

mote (feminine nominative oblique singular)


mot

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

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


mot

(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.

mot (indefinite nominative singular)
motet (definite nominative singular)
mot (indefinite nominative plural)
moten (definite nominative plural)
mots (genitive indefinite singular)
motets (definite genitive singular)
mots (genitive indefinite plural)
motens (definite genitive plural)

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


mot

Kör mot stan.

Det där är mot lagen!


mot

Mot omik: ‚Maria’ ämatirajanof ko ‚Ioseph’, äplakoy, das büä ikobikons, pigrodükof fa Saludalanal.

1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:

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.

mots (nominative plural)
mot (nominative singular)
mots (nominative plural)
mota (genitive singular)
motas (genitive plural)
mote (dative singular)
motes (dative plural)
moti (accusative singular)
motis (accusative plural)
o mot! (singular vocative)
o mots! (plural vocative)
motu (predicative singular)
motus (plural predicative)


mot

Mot w'all aar boust, hi soon was ee-teight

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:

But with all their bravado they were soon taught

Wode zar; mot, all arkagh var ee barnaugh-blowe,

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:

Would serve; but, all eager for the barnagh-stroke,

Aar was nodhing ee-left mot a heade,

1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:

Mot earch oan to aar die. Ich mosth kotch a bat.

1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

But every one to his day. I must catch the bat.

Vear'd nodhing mot Portheare. Na skeine e'er ee-waare.

1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

I feared nothing but Porter. No skein I ever wore.

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.


mot

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


mot

Well, gosp, c'hull be zeid; mot thee fartoo, an fade;

1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:

Well, gossip, it shall be told; you ask what ails me, and for what;

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