mothee

Yola

Etymology

Derived from Middle English mote (“mound, hill”) + -ee (“diminutive suffix”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɔːˈtiː/

Noun

mothee

  1. A little hill.
    Synonyms: knockeen, knaughaan

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 57
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