moder

See also møder

English

Verb

moder (third-person singular simple present moders, present participle modering, simple past and past participle modered)

  1. (obsolete) To moderate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.


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German

Verb

moder

  1. First-person singular present of modern.
  2. Imperative singular of modern.

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Limburgish

Noun

moder f

  1. mother
  2. guardian
  3. nun
  4. woman

Inflection

Inflection
Root singular Root plural Diminutive singular Diminutive plural
Nominative moder moders meuderke meuderkes
Genitive moder moders meuderkes meuderkes
Locative moderes modereser modereske modereskes
Dative¹ moder moders meuderke meuderkes
Accusative¹ moder moders meuderke meuderkes
  • Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.

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Middle English

Noun

moder

  1. mother

References

p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.


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Scots

Etymology

From Old English mōdor. Compare mither.

Noun

moder (plural moders)

  1. (archaic) mother

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Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *modъr. Cognate with Bulgarian модър, Serbo-Croatian модар/modar, Slovak and Czech modrý. Non-Slavic cognates include Hittite andra[1], Latin madeo (be wet), Ancient Greek μαδάω[2].

Adjective

moder

  1. blue
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *mudъr.

Adjective

moder

  1. wise
Declension

References

  1. ^ Václav Machek, Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, ČSAV, 1968, p. 372: Příbuzné je het. andra- t/v; jest uznati slov. přesmyk am > ma
  2. ^ Petar Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Z., 1972, v. 2, p. 448: Osnova mod- uporeduje se sa lat. madeo, gr. μαδάω, μάδρυον »šljiva«

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse móðir, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

Noun

moder c

  1. mother

Declension

See also

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