What is the name meaning of MOTTE. Phrases containing MOTTE
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English
English : probably a nickname for someone who wore parti-colored clothes, from Middle English motteley ‘motley’.
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French and English
French and English : topographic name for someone who lived by a fortified stronghold, Old French, Middle English motte. The surname may also be a habitational name from any of the places in France named with this word.English : variant spelling of Mott 2.German : habitational name from Motte in the Saarland or Motten in Bavaria.The settlement that became the city of Detroit was founded in 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac (1658–1730), governor of LA. He was born into the minor nobility in Gascony, France, where his father owned the seigneury of Cadillac.
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English : variant of Mottershead or Mottishead, a habitational name from a lost place in the parish of Mottram, Cheshire, recorded in the 13th century as Mottresheved, from the genitive case of the Old English byname MÅtere ‘speaker’ + Middle English heved ‘head(land)’, ‘hill’.
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English : variant spelling of Motte 1.English : from Motte, a medieval pet form of the personal name Matilda (see Mould).German : topographic name for someone who lived by or owned property in a marshy area, from Middle High German mot ‘mud’, ‘swamp’.
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A clump of trees in a prairie.