mooth
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ (“mouth, opening, door, gate”), from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with English mouth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muθ/
Noun
mooth (plural mooths)
References
- “mooth”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “mooth”, in The Online Scots Dictionary[1]