mouton
Old French
noun
Definitions
- sheep animal
- mutton meat
Etymology
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
- mutton English
- molto Latin
- moltō Latin
- mouton French
- moutonner French
- motoun Middle English
- motóa Galician
- mollt Welsh
- molt Old Irish
- mouton Norman
- *moltos Proto-Celtic
- muntuni Sicilian
- maout Breton
- mols Cornish
- mouton Haitian, Haitian Creole
- *multon- Gaulish
- mouton Seychellois Creole
- lemuto Chinook Jargon
- ləmətu Saanich
- ləmətú Klallam