mouton
French
noun
Definitions
- sheep animal
- mutton meat
- (figuratively) lemming, sheep someone who follows a crowd and succumbs to groupthink
- mouton coin
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mouton (sheep) inherited from Latin moltō derived from Gaulish *multon- (sheep) derived from Proto-Celtic *moltos (sheep, wether, ram).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*moltos
Gloss
sheep, wether, ram
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
羊
Emoji
🐏 🐑
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mouton English
- *multonis, *multo Latin
- molto Latin
- moltō Latin
- moutonner French
- motoun Middle English
- molt Irish
- mouton Old French
- motóa Galician
- mollt Welsh
- molt Old Irish
- mult Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- mohlt Manx
- mouton Norman
- *molto- Proto-Celtic
- *moltos Proto-Celtic
- moutoun Occitan
- muntuni Sicilian
- maout Breton
- mols Cornish
- mouton Haitian, Haitian Creole
- *multon- Gaulish
- mouton Seychellois Creole
- lemuto Chinook Jargon
- lemetú Squamish
- ləmətu Saanich
- ləmətú Klallam