mu

mu · noun¹

1. Phoenician · derived from𐤌𐤌“water”
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromμῦ
3. English todaymu

From Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), derived from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /⁠mem⁠/, “water”). Doublet of mem.

mu · interjection, noun²

1. Japanese · derived from無“nothing, neither yes nor no”
2. English todaymu

From Japanese 無 (mu, “nothing, neither yes nor no”).

mu · noun³

From Mandarin 畝／亩 (mǔ).

Mu · proper noun⁴

Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in the Mayan Madrid Codex using the De Landa alphabet), as the name of a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe; later identified as Atlantis by Augustus Le Plongeon.

Mu · noun⁵

1. Greek · borrowed fromμ
2. Greek · borrowed fromμ
3. English todayMu

Borrowed from Greek μ (m).

Mu · proper noun⁶

1. Burmese · borrowed fromမူး
2. Burmese · borrowed fromမူး
3. English todayMu

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

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