Maud

• Maude

From Old French Mahaut. Doublet of Matilda.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd
• Homophone: mod (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Maud

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Dromio of Ephesus. Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn!
     Dromio of Syracuse. Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! - - - Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such a store

   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Come into the Garden Maud:

     Come into the garden, Maud, / For the black bat, night, has flown, / Come into the garden, Maud, / I am here at the gate alone;

2. A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9247).

• Damu, Duma, duma, muda

Ultimately from Old French Mahaut.

• IPA^(key): /mɑu̯t/

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• Hyphenation: Maud
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
• Homophone: mout

Maud f

1. a female given name

Maud f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Maud: Maudarson
• daughter of Maud: Maudardóttir

• Maude

• IPA^(key): /mod/

Maud f

1. a female given name, variant of Mathilde

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Maud c (genitive Mauds)

1. a female given name borrowed from English