mold

mold · noun, verb¹

1. Old Frenchmodle
2. Middle Englishmolde
3. English todaymold

From Middle English molde (“mold, cast”), from Old French modle, mole, from Latin modulus, from Latin modus. Doublet of module, modulus, and model.

mold · noun, verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*mewk-“slick, soft”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*muglōną
3. Old Norse · derived frommygla
4. Middle English · inherited frommowlde
5. English todaymold

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of mowlen, moulen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz 'soft substance' (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

mold · noun, verb³

1. Proto-Indo-European*melh₂-
2. Proto-Indo-European*ml̥h₂téh₂
3. Proto-Germanic*muldō
4. Proto-West Germanic*moldu
5. Old Englishmolde
6. Middle Englishmolde
7. English todaymold

From Middle English molde, from Old English molde, from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil”) (compare Old Frisian molde, Middle Dutch moude, Dutch moude, obsolete German Molte, Norwegian Bokmål mold, and Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda)), from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥h₂-téh₂ (compare Ashkun mič, Kamkata-viri muři, mřey, mřëi, Prasuni mire, Waigali muk, all meaning "clay").

mold · noun⁴

1. Proto-Indo-European*ml̥Hdʰṓ
2. Proto-Germanic*muldô
3. Proto-West Germanic*moldō
4. Old Englishmolda
5. Middle Englishmolde
6. English todaymold

From Middle English molde (“top of the head”), from Old English molda, molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldō, from Proto-Germanic *muldô, from a Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ, parallel to Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhán).

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