Motte
nameEtymology
* As a French, Walloon, and West Flemish surname, from Old French mot, motte (“embankment, hill, mound”), from Medieval Latin mota (“fortified height”), which could be of Celtic origin and from Gaulish *mutt, *mutta (compare Welsh mwd (“vault, arch, canopy”), Irish móta (“moat”), though this itself could have been borrowed from the English) or otherwise of Germanic origin and from the root of mud. Compare Delamotte, Demotte, Lamotte. * As an English surname, variant of Mott. * As a German surname, perhaps from Motten in Bavaria, first attested 837, from the personal name Moto (compare *mōd (“courage, bravery”)).
- derived from *mutt✻
Definitions
A surname.
A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a…
A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
- The motte was a mound made of earth and surrounded by a ditch.
An argument which is uncontroversial and easy to defend (in the context of a motte and…
An argument which is uncontroversial and easy to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
- Coordinate term: bailey
- "Birds are dinosaurs" is the bailey; "birds are more similar to dinosaurs than anything else" is the motte.
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Alternative form of mott.
The neighborhood
- neighbormoat
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at Motte. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at motte. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at motte
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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