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Where does “mura” come from?

mura (French) comes from French murer, from French mûr, from Middle French mur, from Old French mur, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin moerus, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.

mura (French): third-person singular past historic of murer

Definitions

  1. third-person singular past historic of murer

Ancestry of “mura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmurerto wall; wall off; to wall up; to lock up
2Frenchmûrmatured, ripe; mature
3Middle Frenchmur—
4Old Frenchmurwall
5Latinmūrus—
6Old Latinmoerus—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear
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