moude

From Middle Dutch moude, from Old Dutch *molda, from Proto-Germanic *muldō, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with German Molte (“dust, earth”), English mold, Old Frisian molde (“earth, soil”), Old Norse mold (“earth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda, “earth, clay”).

moude f (uncountable)

1. mold, loose earth

• maude, moud

From Middle English mode (“a company of people”), from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą.

moude

1. crowd, throng

   Synonym: joude

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 57