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Mau from mûs,, ‘muscles especially of the upper part of the arm’;  mûs,  mûs,  muis, have the same sense;  identical with  (1). In other cases too names of animals are applied to parts of the body. μῦς, ‘muscle,’ μυών, ‘cluster of muscles,’ mus-culus, ‘muscle,’  ‘little mouse,’  myšĭca, ‘arm,’  muš-ka, ‘testicle, pudenda muliebria,’  ‘little mouse.’  ,, ‘to act like a cheat,’ ‘mosaizare’; allied to ,  to  Môschâh, ‘Moses.’  ', ';, ‘moulting, casting the skin, moulting season,’ from mûȥe,  (in compounds mûȥer). ‘mewing, moulting’; *mûȥȥa,, ‘moulting,’ is not recorded; allied to  mûȥȥôn,  mûȥen, ‘to exchange for,’  also  ‘to moult, cast the skin.’ Borrowed before the  period (contemporaneously with , , and ) from  mûtâre, hence the permutation of t to ȥ ( mûta, ‘moulting’); sz has been preserved in. From the same source are derived bimûtian, ‘to change, exchange,’  moutin,  to moult, as well as  muer, ‘to moult,’ mue, ‘moulting.’  ,, ‘to catch mice, pilfer,’ from musen, ‘to creep, deceive’; a derivative of  mûs,  to. ,, ‘pert, saucy,’ only (, ‘to bray, bluster’), allied to , ‘moulting,’  ‘one that moults, mews, dresses smartly in order to make himself conspicuous.’  ,, ‘toll, duty,’ a word, from  mûte, ,  mûta, , ‘toll.’ The current derivation from  mûta is not satisfactory, since the latter word is not recorded until late (first half of the 9th ), and that as a  word, nullum teloneum neque quod lingua theodisca Muta vocatur; ann. 837. môta,, ‘toll,’ is the earliest recorded term. Yet mûta and  môta (also  and  múta, ‘fee, gratuity, bribe’) are not, since  môta ( môt) leads to  *muoȥa, and  mûta to  *mûda. Probably the word was borrowed about the 8th, after the  permutation of consonants, from a  closely allied to the  ( ô tended towards û); to this is also allied  myto, ‘toll.’ An earlier loan-word is also recorded in Mid   muoȥe, ‘toll, tax,’ which points to  *muoȥa, and which has been preserved in  , ‘miller’s fee.’ Yet the word may have been  allied to the. The term, which is cognate in meaning, is also of obscure origin.  ',, ‘to bleat,’ only;  has an  word by a different derivation from the same stem, mëchzen, ‘to bleat,’ allied to  mëcke, , ‘he-goat,’ as a nickname ( *m'gga'', ‘he-goat,’ is wanting). the pre- root mak in μηκάομας, ‘to bleat.’  ,, ‘ocean, sea,’ from męr, ,  męri, earlier mari,  and , ‘ocean’;   męri, ,  meer, ,  męre, ,  mere (to which merman, mermaid, are allied),  marr, ,  marei,  (and *mar, , preserved in the compound mari-saivs, ‘ocean’). The common word for ‘ocean,’   mari,  (or mori, recorded by Pliny as a Cimbrian form), which is partly common to the West Aryan tribes (so too  lacus,  loch,  to  lagu, ‘ocean’);  mare,,  morjc, , ‘ocean,’  máres, ‘Kurisches Haff,’  muir (from mori), ‘ocean’; to these are allied  Αμφίμαρος, ‘son of Poseidon,’ as well as ἀμάρα, , ‘trench, conduit’ (  mar, ‘trench, pond’)?. These cognates are usually connected with the Aryan root mar, ‘to die’ (, morior), so that the ocean was named in “contrast to the living vegetation” of the mainland, just as in  also marus, ‘desert,’ is referred to the root mar, ‘to die’; this, however, is no more probable than the derivation of  from the root men, ‘to think.’   and.   ,, ‘horse-radish,’ allied to , like to ,  (ĭ) to  (ī), &c.; corresponding to  męrręttich,  męri-ratich, , ‘radish that has come from over the sea, transpontine radish.’ The  term horse-radish, , is curious, and suggests the idea that  in this case is  to. mierikwortel, mirrek, , seem to be of the same origin.   ,, ‘meal, flour, dust,’ from mël ( mëlawes), ,  mëlo ( mëlawes), ; corresponding to  mël,  meel,  mëlu ( mëlwes), ,  meal,  mjǫl (  mjǫlva), ‘meal’; the common  word for ‘meal’;  *milwa ( *milwis) is