mouothi

• mouorir (Guernsey)

From Old French morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

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mouothi

1. (Jersey) to die
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 517:

     Va où tu peux, meurs où tu deis.

     Go where you can, die where you must.

• trépâsser
• (idiomatic):
  • câsser sa pipe (literally “to break one's pipe”)
  • pâsser l'pas (literally “to pass the threshold”)
  • patchi ses vailes (literally “to pack one's sails”)

• naître (“to be born”)