muet

From Middle French mut, muet, from Old French mu, mut, mui, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

• IPA^(key): /mɥɛ/, /my.ɛ/

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muet (feminine singular muette, masculine plural muets, feminine plural muettes)

1. dumb (unable to talk)
2. silent, mute, unspeaking
3. silent, unvoiced, unspoken

   Le et la deviennent l' devant une voyelle ou un « h » muet.

   Le and la become l' before a vowel or a silent "h".

• amuïr
• mutisme
• mutité

• “muet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• émut, émût
• meut
• mute, muté

• mute, mywet, mewet, mwet, muyt, muett

From Anglo-Norman muet; sometimes influenced by Latin mūtus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiu̯ɛt/, /ˈmiu̯t/

muet

1. Temporarily unable to speak (due to strong emotions or secrecy)
2. (rare) Mute; unable to speak or incapable of speech.
3. (rare) Silent; tending not to make noise.

• English: mute
• Scots: mute

• “mūet (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-03.

From Old French mu, from Latin mūtus.

muet m

1. (Jersey) mute

• muettement (“mutely, silently”)