Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. · A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. · The foam of a breaker. · A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).
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- Inherited-form mentionmosenm · mush, pulp, porridge
- Cognate mentionappelmosenm
- Inherited-form mentionmōsang
- Inherited-form mention*mōsgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*mōsągem-pro
- Derivation mention*meh₂d-ine-pro · wet, fat, dripping
- Cognate mentionmooshsco
- Cognate mentionmoesnl
- Cognate mentionMusde
- Cognate mentionmossv
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