mort

Meaning

Noun

• Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
• A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
• The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
• A variety of dummy whist for three players.
• The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
• A great quantity or number.
• A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
• A three-year-old salmon.
• A woman; a female.

Related

Opposite words

• immort

Origin

• Borrowed from French mort ("death").
• Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr.
• Uncertain.
• UK circa 1560–1890. Etymology unknown. Documented possibilities include:
• From mort, by equation of women with fish.
• From Welsh modryb
• From Welsh morwyn
• From French amourette
• From, or cognate with, Dutch mot, from Middle Low German mutte.
• From French motte
• From Romani mintš. Cognate with English minge.