Mutter

Mutter

1. A surname.

From Middle High German muoter, from Old High German muoter.

Mutter f (genitive Muttersch)

1. (Silesian) mother

• Gruußmutter
  • Grußmutterla

• Mueter, Muetter, Muoter, Muotter, Muter (all obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʊtər/, [ˈmʊtɐ]

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• Hyphenation: Mut‧ter
• Rhymes: -ʊtɐ

From Middle High German muoter, from Old High German muoter, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Dutch moeder, English mother, Danish moder, Swedish moder.

Mutter f (genitive Mutter, plural Mütter, diminutive Mütterchen n or Mütterlein n or Mütterken n)

1. mother

   Coordinate terms: Vater, Kind

• Frau

• Eltern

• → Central Franconian: Motter
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: muttern

Mutter f (proper noun, genitive Mutters or Mutter)

1. Mother; Mum; Mom: one's mother

   Synonyms: Mama, Mutti

• Chiefly in north-eastern regions, there used to be a colloquial practice of adding -(e)n to proper nouns in the dative and accusative cases: ein Geschenk für Muttern (“a present for Mother”). This is now chiefly archaic or humorous. However, the phrase wie bei Muttern (“like Mum used to make”, of food) has entered general use.

Originally the same as etymology 1, but secondarily distinguished in the plural; so denoted by a sexual metaphor, which is also found in other languages. Compare for example Dutch moer.

Mutter f (genitive Mutter, plural Muttern)

1. nut (for a bolt)

   Synonym: Schraubenmutter

• “Mutter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mutter (Frau, Kinder, Natur)” in Duden online
• “Mutter (Schraube, Metall, Teil)” in Duden online
• “Mutter” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Mutter”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• “Mutter” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Mutter on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• muter (Wiesemann spelling)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: Mut‧ter

From Central Franconian Modder, from Middle High German muoter, from Old High German muoter, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Mutter f (plural Mitter, diminutive Mutterche)

1. mother

   Synonyms: Maio, Mamai, Mamma, Mutti

   Coordinate term: Fatter

   Sie is mein Mutter.

   She is my mother.

2. (metonymically) womb

From Central Franconian Modder, from Moddersjroef.

Mutter f (plural Mitter, diminutive Mutterche)

1. (usually in the diminutive) nut (fastener used with a bolt)

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Mutter”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 114, column 1

From or influenced by German Mutter

Mutter f (diminutive Mütterken)

1. mother; Alternative form of Mauder (North-Westphalian, Menslage, Mecklenburgisch)