Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Not having the power of speech; dumb. · Silent; not making a sound. · Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters. · Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
To silence, to make quiet. · To turn off the sound of. · To cause the content or messages of (a social media account, a website, etc.) to no longer appear on one's feed, trigger notifications, or similar, especially without fully blocking.
A stopped consonant; a stop. · An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. · A person who does not have the power of speech. · A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.
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