motte
English
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editEtymology 1
editFrom French motte, from Anglo-Norman/Old French motte (“mound, hillock”). Doublet of moat.
Noun
editmotte (plural mottes)
- A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- An argument which is uncontroversial and easy to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
- Coordinate term: bailey
- 2023 February 10, “Why Birds Are Not Dinosaurs (And Why It Matters)”, in Answers in Genesis[1], archived from the original on 2023-03-15:
- "Birds are dinosaurs" is the bailey; "birds are more similar to dinosaurs than anything else" is the motte.
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Etymology 2
editAlternative forms.
Noun
editmotte (plural mottes)
- Alternative form of mott
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editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch mote, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”). Likely influenced by French motte.
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editNoun
editmotte f (plural mottes, diminutive mottetje n)
- a raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch; a motte
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editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French mote (“mound”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”).
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editNoun
editmotte f (plural mottes)
- motte (mound of earth)
- clod (lump of earth)
- block, lump (of food etc.)
- Synonym: tas
- motte de beurre
- lump of butter
- (colloquial) pubic mound, mons veneris
- Synonym: mont de Vénus
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editFurther reading
edit- “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŭtt”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 294
German
editVerb
editmotte
- inflection of motten:
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editmotte
Limburgish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch moeten, from Old Dutch muotan, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtan, from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną.
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editVerb
editmotte (third-person singular present mott, past participle gemosst, auxiliary verb haane) (Eupen)
- (auxiliary, with an infinitive → “motte” replaces the past participle) to have to (do something); must; to be obliged (to do something); to need (to do something).
- (intransitive) to be necessary, to be required
- (intransitive) to have to go, to need to go, must go
- (intransitive, euphemistic) to need to go to the toilet
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