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Mol  ,, ‘salamander’; the suffix ch first appears in early ; from  mol, , molle, , ‘lizard, salamander,’  mol, with the variants molm and molt. mol and molle signify ‘mole.’ It is not certain whether the word in both senses is  the same. mol, ‘lizard,’ has also been connected with the root mat, ‘to grind, pulverise.’   ,, ‘whey,’ from molken, molchen (also with u-ü instead of o), , ‘whey,’ also ‘milk and that which is prepared from milk’;  *molchan is wanting. molcen,, testifies, however, to the antiquity of molken, which is a derivative of ,  root melk;   and.   , (with  ô from  â before a nasal, as in, , , , &c.), from the   mânôt (d),  mânôd, , ‘month’;   mênôþs,  mônað,  month. The common term mênôþ-, ‘month’ (pre- mênôt-), seems identical with,  mênin-. The computation of time according to the periods of the moon is perhaps, since the terms for month in the Aryan languages agree approximately. See under.   ,, ‘monk, friar,’ from the  münch, münech,  munih (hh),. From the form muniko-, monico-, the   moine is also derived. In the original word monachus (μοναχός), ‘monk,’ the ch was probably pronounced as c;   monaco,  manach,  munuc,  monk; so that  ch is the  permutation of k. In that case was borrowed at an earlier period than  and  (see ). mŭnichŭ is a loanword.   ,, ‘moon,’ from mâne, , ‘moon, month’ ( rarely ),  mâno, , ‘moon’; even in  occurs a form with a final dental, mânt, mânde, which is due to confusion with mânet (yet   and ),  mêna,  môna, ,  moon,  maan. In the form mêno,, a common term for ‘moon’ (a later  form appears in  mœnîn,  mânîn); it is based, like most of the terms for ‘moon’ and ‘month’ in the cognate Aryan languages, on Aryan mên, mênôt, or mênes. mâs, (for mâis, mêns),  ‘moon, month,’ mâsa,, ‘month,’  μήν (for *μήνς), ‘month,’  mensis, ‘month,’  měsęcĭ, , ‘moon, month,’  měnů, ‘moon,’ měnesis, ‘month,’  mí. The exact relation of mênôþ-, mênan-, to - mêns- (*mênes-) is disputed. The derivation of the stems mên, mêns, from the Aryan root mē̆, ‘to measure’ ( mâ, ‘to measure, mete out,’ mâtram, μέτρον, ‘measure,’ see, ), may accord with the facts of the case (the moon was regarded as the measurer of time), yet from the historical and linguistic standpoint it cannot be considered a certainty. and.   ,, ‘Monday’; with the môn of without the later d;  mântac ( and  mœntac, with mutation),  mânatag (*mânintag?), , ‘Monday’;   maandag,  mônandœg,  Monday (*môn  to ‘moon’),  mánadagr. The common term for  dies Lunae ( lundi,  lunedi).   , and, ‘moor,’  only, from  môr;   moer,  môr, ,  môr, , ‘moor, swamp,’  moor; corresponding to  and  muor, , ‘swamp,’ seldom ‘sea’; scarcely akin to  mó-r ( mó-s), , ‘moor, dry heath’  muor, as well as  môr ( *môra- is wanting), is rather relate by gradation to ,  męri,  męre,  marei,. or, if r is derived by rhotacism from s, the cognates are connected with and  mos, ‘swamp’; this, however, after the remarks made under, is hardly probable.   ,, ‘moss,’ from and  mos, , ‘moss, moor, swamp’ (whence  mousse, ‘moss’); corresponding to  mos, ‘moss,’  moss,  mose, , ‘moss, swamp,’ to which  mýrr ( mire), ‘slime,’ is allied. To these are related by gradation meós,  mios,  mies,  and, ‘moss,’ whence also. The senses ‘moss, swamp,’ may be associated by the connecting link ‘mossy ground,’ hence the assumption of two different words is not required, *mosa-, ‘moss’ (by gradation *miusa, ‘moss,’  mios,  meós, ‘moss’), and mosa-, ‘swamp’ (by gradation *môsa, ‘moor,’  muor,  ). *musa, by gradation *miusa-, ‘moss,’ is connected with mŭchŭ ‘moss,’  mūsaí, ‘mould’ (on liquids), and  muscus, ‘moss,’ which has a<section end="Moos" />