Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. · A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen. · An undesirable situation; a predicament.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. · To sink into mud. · To weigh down. · To soil with mud or foul matter.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *miuzijō Proto-Norse [Term?] Old Norse mýrrbor. Middle English mire English mire From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss). Doublet of (obsolete) mizzy.
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