different between motte vs motti

English

Etymology 1

From French motte, from Anglo-Norman/Old French motte (“mound, hillock”). Doublet of moat.

Noun

motte (plural mottes)

1. A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.

Derived terms

• motte-and-bailey

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

motte (plural mottes)

1. Alternative form of mott

Anagrams

• motet, totem

Dutch

Etymology

From 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.t?/
• Hyphenation: mot?te
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

motte f (plural mottes, diminutive mottetje n)

1. a raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch; a motte

Derived terms

• mottekasteel

Anagrams

• totem

French

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

motte f (plural mottes)

1. motte (mound of earth)
2. clod, lump of earth
3. block (of butter)
4. (colloquial) (pubic) mound, mons veneris

Further reading

• “motte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

motte

1. inflection of motten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

motte

1. R?maji transcription of ???

English

Etymology

From Finnish motti.

Noun

motti (plural mottis)

1. (military) encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment

Bruny Island

Numeral

motti

1. one

Further reading

• Norman James Brian Plomley, A Word-list of the Tasmanian Languages (1976), page 38
• Michael Walsh, Colin Yallop, Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (1993), page 59

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish mått.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mot?i/, [?mo?t??i]
• Rhymes: -ot?i
• Syllabification: mot?ti

Noun

motti

1. a stere; a cubic metre of firewood.
2. (military) encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment

Declension

Derived terms

• motittaa
• motitus

Anagrams

• motit

Italian

Noun

motti m

1. plural of motto