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Mor , ‘mortar,’ and. The combination rs instead of rsch (see under, , , &c.) occurs also in , compared with the. The form,  mors-âri, is based on a verbal root murs;   zermürsen ( zermorschen), ‘to crash to pieces,’ Swiss morsen, mürsen, ‘to grind, pound small,’  morzelen, ‘to pulverise, mangle.’ On the other hand, the   mortarium ( mortier) is indicated by  mortier,  mortêre,  mortêr,  mortar.   ,, from the  mortel, morter, , ‘mortar (cement),’ from  mortarium. mortier, ‘mortar’ (bowl and cement), whence also mortar.   ,, ‘must, new wine,’ from and  most, , ‘fermenting new wine, wine must;’ borrowed, like other words relating to vine-growing (see , , , , , and ); the  origin is mustum, ‘must,’ whence also , , and  must, the   most, and in the  group,  mosto,  mout. further mŭstŭ.   ', ', (the second word is a corruption of the first), ‘mustard,’  mostert, musthart,, ‘mustard mixed with must’; corresponding to the  terms,  mostarda,  moutarde, whence  and  mustard,  mosterd. A derivative of mustum, ‘must,’ mustard being mixed with must. .   ,, from the late  matte, , ‘moth’ (tt originated in  and  þþ, as in , , and ). *muþþô is wanting;  moþþe,,  moþþe,  moth,  mot (t for tt from þþ), ‘moth’; also the curious variants,  matte,  ( *maþþa),  mohþe, ,  moughþe, ‘moth’ ( motte, . ‘moth,’ with the same permutation of þþ to tt as in ). Perhaps the cognates discussed under are akin.   ,, only, from the   mewe,  meeuw, , ‘mew, seagull.’ The word existed in  as méh;  *maihws is wanting;   má-r, , ‘seagull.’ A variant *maiwi is indicated by  mœ̂w,  mew (for the interchange of hw and w see ), as well as by the  form meeuw. A pre-  *maiko-, *maiki, has not yet been found with a meaning similar to that of the  cognates.   ,, ‘whim, freak,’ a form for the rare  muoche, ‘vexatious thought’; yet the word may be regarded as the normal  form for , so that its derivation should be similar to that of.   ,, ‘gnat, midge,’ from mücke, mucke, , ‘gnat, fly’ (hence still   ‘fly’),  mucca,   *mugjô is by chance not recorded; it is indicated by  myčǧe, ,  midge,  muggia,  mug. mý,, ‘gnat,’ suggests the idea that the West guttural is a suffix, as in  (see also ). The common form of the noun is muwî, to which also  μυῖα corresponds. <section end="Mücke" /> ,, ‘to grumble,’ first occurs in early , probably akin to late mûgen, ‘to roar,’ which may be allied to μυκάομαι, ‘to roar’ (see ). Perhaps it is also connected with ; it is based on muckzen, muchzen,  muccazzen, ‘to whisper, grumble’; apparently, however, it is better connected with the  root mū̆k, ‘to pretend to know secrets,’ discussed under. To this also belongs the simply, ‘sulky person, grumbler,’  ‘religions hypocrite,’ in which sense the word first appeared in Jena in the early part of the 18th  to denote the adherents of the pietist theologian Buddeus. <section begin="Mucker" /> , see. <section end="Mucker" /> , see. <section begin="müde" /> ,, from the  müede,  muodi, , ‘tired, weary’;   môði,  moede,  mêðe, ‘tired’ ( *mô-þeis, ‘tired,’ is wanting);  also  móðr, ‘tired.’ The dental is a  derivative of the root *mô- , of which  is a verbal  meaning ‘having wearied oneself.’ <section end="müde" /> <section begin="Muff" />  (1.),, ‘muff,’ only; from  muff,  mof, ‘muff,’  muff; a modern  word connected with  moufle, ‘mitten,’  (even in the 9th ) muffula. The origin of the cognates has not yet been determined; they are generally connected with mouwe, ‘sleeve.’

 (2.), ‘mould,’ only, allied to  muf, ‘musty, moist, mouldy’; late  müffeln, ‘to smell bad or<section end="Muff" />