motoun
Middle English
/muˈtuːn/
noun
Definitions
- The meat of sheep or a piece of it; mutton.
- A sheep of either gender or its corpse.
- An Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
- (rare) The astrological sign Aries.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French mouton (sheep) derived from Latin moltō derived from Gaulish *multon- (sheep) derived from Proto-Celtic *moltos (sheep, wether, ram).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*moltos
Gloss
sheep, wether, ram
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
羊
Emoji
🐏 🐑
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mutton English
- mutton dash English
- mutton-thumper English
- muttonchop English
- muttonfish English
- muttongrass English
- muttonhead English
- muttonheaded English
- muttonmonger English
- muttony English
- molto Latin
- moltō Latin
- mouton French
- マトン Japanese
- mouton Old French
- motóa Galician
- mollt Welsh
- mutono Ido
- molt Old Irish
- mouton Norman
- *moltos Proto-Celtic
- muntuni Sicilian
- maout Breton
- mols Cornish
- *multon- Gaulish