muþ

See also: muy, muth, mùth, and muð

Middle English

Noun

muþ

Alternative form of mouth

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *munþ.

Cognates

Cognates include Old Frisian mūth, mund, mond (North Frisian müth, West Frisian mûn), Old Saxon mūth, Old Dutch mund (Dutch mond), Old High German mund (German Mund), Old Norse muðr, munnr (Danish mund, Icelandic munnur, Norwegian munn, Swedish mun), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muːθ/

Noun

mūþ m

mouth
opening, door, gate

Declension

Declension of muþ (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mūþ	mūþas
accusative	mūþ	mūþas
genitive	mūþes	mūþa
dative	mūþe	mūþum

Derived terms

mūþlēas

Descendants

Middle English: mouth
- English: mouth
- Scots: mooth

References

John R. Clark Hall (1916), “muþ”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan

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