Where does “nuage-mur” come from?

nuage-mur (French) comes from French nuage, from French nue, from Middle French nue, from Old French nue, from Vulgar Latin nuba, from Latin nūbēs, from Proto-Indo-European (s)newdʰ- — to cover.

nuage-mur (French): wall cloud

Definitions

  1. wall cloud

Ancestry of “nuage-mur”, step by step

nuage-mur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French nuage

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnuagecloud; first-person singular present indicative...
2Frenchnuefeminine singular of nu; cloud
3Middle Frenchnuecloud
4Old Frenchnuecloud
5Vulgar Latinnuba—
6Latinnūbēscloud
7Proto-Indo-European(s)newdʰ-to cover

via French mûr

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmûrmatured, ripe; mature
2Middle Frenchmurwall
3Old Frenchmurwall
4Latinmūruswall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs)
5Old Latinmoerus—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear
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