mouth

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun. === Pronunciation === (noun): enPR: mouth, IPA(key): /maʊθ/ (Canada) IPA(key): /mʌʊθ/ (Ontario) IPA(key): [məʊθ] (Northumbria) IPA(key): /muːθ/ Rhymes: -aʊθ (verb): enPR: mouth, IPA(key): /maʊð/ (Canada) IPA(key): /mʌʊθ/, /maʊð/ Rhymes: -aʊð === Noun === mouth (plural mouths) (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river. An outlet, aperture or orifice. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person. (slang) A gossip. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:mouth ==== Derived terms ==== English terms starting with “mouth” ==== Descendants ==== Sranan Tongo: mofo Aukan: mofu ==== Translations ==== === Verb === mouth (third-person singular simple present mouths, present participle mouthing, simple past and past participle mouthed) (transitive) To speak; to utter. (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame. Coordinate terms: lip-sync, lip sync, mime (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound. (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely. (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling. To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth) (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub. To carry in the mouth. (obsolete) To make mouths at To form a mouth or opening in. (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of. ==== Alternative forms ==== mouthe ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === orifice == Middle English == === Alternative forms === moueþ, mouthe, mouþ, mouþe muð, muth, muþ (Early Middle English) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /muːθ/ Rhymes: -uːθ === Noun === mouth (plural mouths) mouth ==== Descendants ==== English: mouth English: (West Yorkshire) maath Scots: mooth Yola: meouth, moweth, mouth ==== References ==== “mǒuth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. == Yola == === Noun === mouth alternative form of meouth === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88