Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To become covered with moss. · To cover (something) with moss.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci). · A kind or species of such plants. · Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. · A bog; a fen.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mews-der. Proto-Germanic *musą Proto-West Germanic *mos Old English mos Middle English mos English moss From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“bog, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian möösk (“moss”), Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Alemannic German Mies (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss; lichen; marsh, swamp”), German and Luxembourgish Moos (“moss”), Low German Moss (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), mose (“bog; moor”), Faroese and Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Norwegian Bokmål mose (“moss”), Norwegian Nynorsk mose, Swedish mossa, mosse (“raised bog”); also Latin muscus (“moss”), Bulgarian мъх (măh, “moss”), Czech and Polish mech (“moss”), Macedonian мов (mov, “moss”), Russian and Ukrainian мох (mox, “moss”), Serbo-Croatian ма̀ховина, màhovina (“moss”), Slovak mach (“moss”), Slovene mah (“moss; raised bog; marsh; velvet; down, fluff”), Armenian մամուռ (mamuṙ, “moss”). Doublet of mousse.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmosenm
- Inherited-form mentionmosang · bog, marsh, moss
- Inherited-form mention*mosgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*musągem-pro · bog, moss
- Derivation mention*mews-ine-pro · moss
- Cognate mentionmööskfrr · moss
- Cognate mentionMoasstq · moss
- Cognate mentionmoasfy · moss
- Cognate mentionMiesgsw · moss
- Cognate mentionmosnl · moss; lichen; marsh, swamp
- Cognate mentionMossnds · moss
- Cognate mentionmosda · moss
- Cognate mentionmosenb · moss
- Cognate mentionmosenn
- Cognate mentionmossasv
- Cognate mentionmuscusla · moss
- Cognate mentionмъхbg · moss
- Cognate mentionмовmk · moss
- Cognate mentionма̀ховинаsh
- Cognate mentionmachsk · moss
- Cognate mentionmahsl · moss; raised bog; marsh; velvet; down, fluff
- Cognate mentionմամուռhy · moss
- Doublet mentionmousseen
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