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Mat mow, reap,’ and which has a shorter form, mê, in.

 (2.),, ‘mat,’ from matte (late  also matze),  matta, , ‘covering woven of straw, rushes, &c., mat’;  mat,  meatte, ,  mat. The correspondence of the and - dental indicates that the word was borrowed, and as a fact it was introduced during the  period. It is based on matta, ‘mat made of rushes.’   ,, ‘Mat; simpleton; pet name for tame birds’; only; probably a pet name for , ‘Matthias,’ and , ‘Matthew’; the intermediate form is.   ,, ‘passover bread,’ early ; from Jewish mazzo, mazzôth, ‘unleavened bread,’ whence also late , or rather early  , ‘passover bread.’  ,, from the  mâwen, ‘to mew like a cat’; an imitative word;.  ,, from the  mûre, mûr, , ‘wall,’  mûra,  (mûri, ), ‘wall,’ from  mûrus, with an abnormal change of gender, which is probably caused by an  word for ‘wall’;   waddjus,. At the same period, before the permutation,  mûr,  mûr,  ( múr), were also borrowed from the, like other words relating to stone buildings;  , , , , &c.   ,, with a guttural, from the   mûche, , ‘malanders,’ hence the strictly  form. Of obscure origin; perhaps allied to mûks, ‘soft, tender’?.    (1.),, ‘mouth (of beasts), muzzle’ (in  is also used for , ‘mouth of men’), from  mûl, mûle, , mûle,  , ‘mouth,’  mûla, , ‘mouth,’ also ‘beak’;  muil,  múle, , ‘mouth, snout’;  *mûlô, , ‘mouth,’ is wanting, but is authenticated by the derivative faurmâljan, ‘to muzzle.’ This word is an l derivative from the root mû, from which  , with a  suffix. nþ, is also formed; see.

 (2.),, ‘mule,’ in , , , , from mûltier, , mûlesel, , yet ordinarily simply mûl,  and , mûle, , ‘mule,’  mûl, ; borrowed from  mûlus. From the same source  muil, m muilezel,  mûl,  mule, as well as  múl, are derived.   ,, from the  mûlber,  and , ‘mulberry,’ which originated, by differentiating r to l, from  mûr-beri, môr-beri,. The fluctuation from ô to û in indicates that the word was borrowed from  môrum, ‘mulberry,’ môrus, ‘mulberry tree,’ whence also  moerbes,  and  môrberie and mûrberie,  also mulberie,  mulberry.   ,, from the  môltwërf, moltwërfe, , ‘mole,’  ‘the animal that throws up the soil’ ( molte, ). The form is a corruption of the  word, which is recorded even in the  and  periods in various forms ( mûwërf, mûlwërf, mûlwëlf, mûrwërf). Other corrupt forms are the , , and. moltwerf, multwurf,, ‘mole,’ are connected with molte, , molt, , ‘dust, mould, soil,’  molta, , molt, ;   mulda, , ‘dust, mould,’  molde,  mould;  a   from the  formed with da- from the root mal, ‘to crush, pulverise,’ hence mul-da;  , , , and. In also moldwerp, ‘mole’ occurs; of this  mole,, , and  mol are shortened forms?. These, however, are probably independent forms from the root mal. Another name for mole appears in scëro,  schër,  and. <section end="Maulwurf" /> <section begin="Maus" />  (1.), ‘mouse,’ from the  and  mûs, ;   muis,  mûs,,  mouse,  mús ( *mûs), , ‘mouse.’ In the consonantal form of the stem, mûs-, it is the common  as well as the common Aryan term for ‘mouse.’ The name occurs in almost all the Aryan languages, a proof that the Aryans in their  Asiatic home were already acquainted with the tiny animal, chiefly through its thefts, mûs- being derived from an  root, mū̆s, ‘to steal,’ which exists in the  chrêomosido, ‘plundering dead bodies,’ of the Lex Salica, and signifying ‘thief’ (it is possible, however, that the mū̆s, ‘to steal,’ is deduced from mûs, ‘mouse’). mûš, ‘mouse,’ with the root muš, mušây, ‘to take away, rob’; also μῦς,  myšĭ,. further the following word.

 (2.), ‘muscles on the arm and foot,’ now  ‘ball of the thumb,’ <section end="Maus" />