motte (English) comes from French motte, from Old French mote, from Medieval Latin mota, from Frankish *mot, from Proto-Germanic *motta, from Proto-Germanic mutô, from Proto-Indo-European (s)mut- — dark, dirty.
motte (English): A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden...
Definitions
A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden...
Ancestry of “motte”, step by step
motte traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.