different between mott vs wott

English

Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.

mott (plural motts)

(US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. [from 19th c.]
- about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
  They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 39:
  We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.

See mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

mott (plural motts)

From Amharic ?? (wä?).

wott (uncountable)

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