Släkthistoria för Melmoth
Melmoth Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English milde ‘mild gentle friendly’ + mouth ‘mouth’. Compare Ricardus Swetmouth' 1379 in Poll Tax (Norfolk). The development of the name seems to have been influenced by association with Middle English mele-mouth ‘mealy-mouthed reticent ingratiating hypocritical; a mealy-mouthed person’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
