motoun

• moton, motun, moten, mutoun, motone, mutton, motton, motene

Borrowed from Old French mouton, from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos.

• IPA^(key): /muˈtuːn/, /ˈmutun/, /ˈmutən/

motoun (plural motouns)

1. The meat of sheep or a piece of it; mutton.
2. A sheep (of either gender) or its corpse.
3. An Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
4. (rare) The astrological sign Aries.

• English: mutton
• Scots: mutton
• Yola: muthon, mothoon

• “motǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 March 2019.