mouth – English noun declension

English noun forms of mouth

Noun: mouth
Singularmouth
Pluralmouths

Sample Sentences

  • "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
  • She kissed him on the mouth.
  • I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
  • The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli. [1895 May, John Ross, “Manchuria”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume XI, number V, Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 220–221:]
  • But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. [1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:]
  • ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • But why give a tunnel mouth any decoration whatsoever? [2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 42:]
  • My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
  • Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth. [2012, Stuart Carolan, 40:45 from the start, in Love/Hate, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Tommy Daly (Killian Scott):]
  • Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. [1712 June 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 403; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:]
  • that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 18:16:]
  • Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *men-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
4. Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tó-s
5. Proto-Germanic *munþaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *munþ
7. Old English mūþ
8. Middle English mouth
9. English mouth
10. From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”).
11. Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun. See: Middle English Nouns 'mouth', Dutch Nouns 'mond', German Nouns 'Mund', Danish Nouns 'mund', Faroese Nouns 'muður', Icelandic Nouns 'munnur', Swedish Nouns 'mun', Gothic Nouns '𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃', Latin Nouns 'mentum', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μάσταξ'.

Verbs referencing "mouth"

Latvian Nouns mute, Danish Nouns mund, German Nouns Mund, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns munn.