Where does “mulberry” come from?

Mulberry comes from Old English mōrberiġe, a compound of mōr and beriġe meaning berry.

mulberry (English): Any of several trees, of the genus "Morus",...

Definitions

  1. Any of several trees, of the genus "Morus",...

Ancestry of “mulberry”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishMulbery—
2Germanmulbere—
3Proto-Germanic*mōrubaʀi—
4Latinmōrus—
5Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
6Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
7Proto-Italic-os—
8Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “mulberry”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin mōrus →