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
- Any of several trees, of the genus "Morus",...
Ancestry of “mulberry”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | Mulbery | — |
| 2 | German | mulbere | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *mōrubaʀi | — |
| 4 | Latin | mōrus | — |
| 5 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
Words derived from “mulberry”