muffle
English
/mʌfl̩/
noun
Definitions
- Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
- A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
- (slang) A boxing glove.
- A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)
- The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
- A machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, block and tackle.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English muflen (muffle) derived from amoufler derived from Old French enmoufler (wrap up, muffle) derived from Latin muffula derived from Frankish *muffël (a muff, envelope, wrap) derived from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (sleeve, muff), *fellą (skin, film, fleece, hide) derived from Frankish *molfell (soft garment made of hide).
Origin
Frankish
*molfell
Gloss
soft garment made of hide
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticamouflage English
- bemuffle English
- camouflage English
- camouflageable English
- camouflager English
- camouflagic English
- enmuffle English
- head English
- immunocamouflage English
- mufflehead English
- muffler English
- mufflered English
- mufflerless English
- muffleth English
- mulch English
- mulcher English
- mulching English
- mulchy English
- unmuffle English
- muffla, muffula Latin
- muffula Latin
- Mulch German
- camuffare Italian
- camouflage French
- moufle French
- мульча Russian
- мульчировать Russian
- mofle Spanish, Castilian
- *pello- Proto-Indo-European
- *fellą Proto-Germanic
- *mawwō Proto-Germanic
- *mildijaz Proto-Germanic
- カモフラージュ Japanese
- マフラー Japanese
- mulcz Polish
- fell Old English
- melsche Middle English
- muflen Middle English
- enmoufler Old French
- mofle Old French
- moufle Old French
- mule Middle Dutch
- vel Old High German
- moufle Middle French
- 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹 Gothic
- *mauwu gmw-pro
- *fel Old Dutch
- *mauwu, *mauwa Frankish
- *molfell Frankish
- *muffël Frankish
- amoufler xno