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Muh rotten.’ With these are connected the widely-diffused cognates, which are said to have originated in the  words:  moufette, ‘firedamp (in mines),’  muffo, ‘mouldy.’  ,, ‘to low,’ from late mühen, müwen, mügen, ‘to roar’; perhaps allied to  μυκάομαι but more probably a recent onomatopoetic form.  ,, ‘to trouble, vex,’ from müen, müejen,  muoen,  , ‘to burden, torment, vex’;  moeijen, ‘to molest, take pains.’ The verbal   ( *môþeis) points, like the , to an  and Aryan root mô, of which there are derivatives in the cognate languages,  μῶ-λος, ‘toil, labour,  in war,’ μῶ-λυς, ‘exhausted by toil, languid, weak,’  mô-les, , ‘exertion, toil, distress,’ &c., môlior, ‘to exert oneself.’ —   ,, from the  müeje,  muoî, , ‘toil,’ is a verbal abstract of the.   ',, from the  mül (müle),  mulî, mulîn, , ‘mill’;   myln,  mill,  mylna (derived from ), , ‘mill.’ Hardly a  derivative of the root mal, discussed under ; it is rather borrowed from common  môlina, ‘mill’ (for classical  mola);   mulino,  moulin, ‘mill’ ( molen,  mulen, and  mŭlinŭ. The formation of an  *mulînô with a suffix -înô has no parallels in . The genuine  word for ‘mill’ is preserved in  qaírnus,  cweorn,  quirn.   ',  (in  almost obsolete), ‘aunt, female relative, nurse,’ from  muome,  muoma, , ‘mother's sister,’ also ‘sister-in-law, female relative.’ That the earlier meaning, ‘mother's sister’ , is the  one is shown by the connection of the word with .  muoma points to  *môna, as is indicated by  and  mône, ‘aunt’ (for the change of n to m, see ). The word is a pet form of or child's term for môdrie,  mödder ( to  modryb, ‘aunt’), which have the same form as  μητρυΐα (  with ); likewise  moei from  moeie, ‘aunt.’ An old synonym occurs in  faþu, ‘aunt on the fathers side, father's sister,’ allied to. móna, ‘mother,’ and the  mœme,  momà,  mama, seem to be pet terms for  ‘mother’; so too  moei, ‘aunt’ ( muoia,  μαῖα).   ,, from the  (rare) müesal, , ‘trouble, affliction’; formed by means of the oft-recurring suffix -sal, from the  , *müejen,.   ,, ‘trough, tray, pail,’ from mulde, , ‘semicircular hollow vessel,  used for cleaning corn, flour-bin, kneading-trough,’ with the  variants  muolte, muolter, multer,  muoltera. The uo before an l and a consonant points to the fact that the cognates were borrowed; they are usually referred to mulctra, ‘milk-pail.’   ,, ‘miller,’ from mülner, mülnœre,  (ln is preserved in the surname , in other cases it is represented by ll),  mûlinâri, , ‘miller.’ A derivative of  ( mulîna), or borrowed directly from  molinarius ( mulinaro,  meunier), ‘miller.’ See. <section end="Müller" /> <section begin="Mulm" /> ,, ‘loose, dry mould, dust,’ first recorded in , but probably of an earlier origin; allied to the root mal, ‘to grind,’ ‘to pulverise,’ with which  mulda, ‘dust, earth,’ and  mould are connected; see under. also. <section end="Mulm" /> <section begin="Mumme" />  (1.),, ‘mum (kind of beer),’ only, whence  nom,  mum. The word is usually derived from Christian Mumme of Brunswick, who first brewed this beer in the year 1492.

 (2.),, ‘mask, masked person, disguise,’ first occurs in early ;  mom, ‘mask, mummery,’  to mumm, to which is allied  momer, ‘to masquerade,’  momerie, ‘mummery’; they are probably connected with an old verbal stem, mum, ‘to buzz, growl.’   mommelen, ‘to mumble, grumble,’  mummen, ‘to roar,’  to mumble,. <section end="Mumme" /> ,, ‘to mumble.’ preceding word. <section begin="Mund" />  (1.),, ‘mouth,’ from munt,  mund, , ‘mouth, outlet,’  mûð, ,  mond, ‘mouth,’  mûð, ,  mouth,  munnr, muðr,  munþs, , ‘mouth.’ The common  word munþa-z, , may be based on pre- mńto-s and connected with  mentum, ‘chin’ (of men and beasts). In the non- languages also evidence of the<section end="Mund" />