Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To undergo the process of shedding or losing a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replacing it with a fresh one; to change by moulting. · To shed in such a manner.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. · The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Latin mūtōder. Old English *mutian Middle English mouten English moult From Middle English mouten, from Old English *mutian (attested in bemutian, “to exchange for”), from Latin mūtō (“to (re)move, change, vary, mutate, exchange, abandon”). Doublet of mute and mutate. The unetymological ⟨l⟩ was introduced into the spelling by mistakenly assuming a French origin with -l- as in fault and vault; compare solder, which in contrast has an etymological ⟨l⟩ (from Latin solidāre, “to make solid“) but was historically pronounced without that grapheme's sound.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*mey- (change)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionmoutenenm
- Inherited-form mention*mutianang
- Derivation mentionmūtōla
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