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moult

Meaningto change

Common meaning: shed feathers, hair or skin

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√MU‘move, push, strip off’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 277, p. 740 · scan
  2. Latinmutare‘to change’source
  3. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsto change → shed feathersmouten‘shed feathers’source
  4. Englishmoult‘shed feathers, hair or skin’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin mutare ‘to change’.

Roots

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