Where does “muxe” come from?

muxe (Galician) comes from Galician muxes, from Galician mugees, from Galician mugel, from Latin mugil, from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- — slimy, slippery; slip, slime.

muxe (Galician): mullet

Definitions

  1. mullet

Ancestry of “muxe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianmuxes—
2Galicianmugees—
3Galicianmugel—
4Latinmugilmullet
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-k-slimy, slippery; slip, slime
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- →Every word from Latin mugil →Every word from Galician mugel →