moude

From Middle Dutch moude, from Old Dutch *molda, from Proto-Germanic *muldō, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to rub, grind”).

Cognate with German Molte (“dust, earth”), English mold, Old Frisian molde (“earth, soil”), Old Norse mold (“earth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda, “earth, clay”).

moude f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. mold, loose earth

• moud, maude

From Middle English *maude, from Middle Low German mate, from Old Saxon gimato.

• IPA^(key): /məʊd/, /mɑːd/

moude

1. crowd, throng

• joude

• 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