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MouldEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
English surname, from the Middle English personal name Mauld, reduced from Anglo-Norman Mathilde, a form of the name Matilda. This was a learned borrowing much less common than the vernacular forms Mahalt, Maud and the reduced pet form Till.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mouldEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Via Middle English molde, moulde (“mould, cast”) and Old French modle, from Latin modulus.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mouldEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow mouldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mouldEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Old English molde. Cognate with Old High German molta, Old Norse mold and Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- MouldEnglish · e-38538-9439
Mould, mōld, n. dust: soil rich in decayed matter: the matter of which anything is composed: a minute fungus which grows on bodies in a damp atmosphere, so named from often growing on mould: the earth, the ground, the gr
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Mould, mōld, n. a hollow form in which anything is cast: a pattern; the form received from a mould, a former or matrix for jellies, &c., also a dish shaped in such: character.—v.t. to form in a mould: to knead, as dough.
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