Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Mort
User Submitted Origins
English
78%
French
11%
Egyptian
11%
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Mort
A great quantity or number.
Etymology: Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many
noun Mort
A woman; a female.
Etymology: Etym. uncert
noun Mort
A salmon in its third year.
Etymology: Etymol. uncertain
noun Mort
Senses
- Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
- A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game."The sportsman then sounded a treble mort." [Sir W. Scott.]
- The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.(Prov. Eng. & Scot)
Etymology: F., death, fr. L. mors mortis
noun Mort
A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
Etymology: F. mort dummy, lit., dead
Wiktionary
Borrowing from French mort (“death”).
- Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
- A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
- (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).
- A great quantity or number.
Clipping of mortal.
- (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Uncertain.
- A three-year-old salmon.
UK circa 1560–1890. Etymology unknown. Documented possibilities include:
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
- From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.
- From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)
- From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)
- From French amourette (“a crush”)
- From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.
- From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)
- From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
mort was also found in the following language(s): Albanian, Catalan, Dutch, French, Ladin, Middle French, Norman, Occitan, Old French, Romanian, Romansch, Scottish Gaelic, and Serbo-Croatian