Where does “Mouer” come from?

Mouer (Luxembourgish) comes from Old High German Mōr, from Latin maurus, from French maure, from Middle French moré, from Old French More, from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek Μαυρούσιος, from Ancient Greek -ούσιος — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Mouer (Luxembourgish): moor; swamp, marsh; Moor, blackamoor, negro

Definitions

  1. moor; swamp, marsh; Moor, blackamoor, negro

Ancestry of “Mouer”, step by step

Mouer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old High German Mōr

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High GermanMōr
2LatinmaurusMoorish, North African
3FrenchmaureMoorish
4Middle FrenchmoréMoor (person of Berber descent)
5Old FrenchMore
6LatinMaurusOf or pertaining to the Moors; Moorish,...
7Ancient GreekΜαυρούσιοςan inhabitant of Mauretania; a Mauretanian
8Ancient Greek-ούσιοςforms relational adjectives: of or pertaining to
9Ancient Greek-ῐοςbelonging to; of”, “belonging to”, “pertaining to
10Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via Middle High German mūre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanmūrewall
2Old High Germanmūrawall
3Proto-West Germanic*mūrāwall
4Latinmūruswall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs)
5Old Latinmoerus
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear

Words derived from “Mouer

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yósEvery word from Ancient Greek -ῐοςEvery word from Ancient Greek -ούσιος