Where does “mu” come from?

Mu comes from Ancient Greek μῦ, borrowed from Phoenician 𐤌, a letter name of unknown original meaning.

mu (English): The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet;...

Definitions

  1. The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet;...

Ancestry of “mu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekμῦmu, the name for the twelfth letter Μ, μ of the...
2Phoenician𐤌𐤌water
3Proto-Semiticmāy-water
4Proto-Afroasiaticmaʔ-water

Words derived from “mu

Every word from Proto-Afroasiatic maʔ-Every word from Proto-Semitic māy-Every word from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌