Etymology

mucal

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Today it means: Mucous, mucosal: of or pertaining to mucus or the production thereof. Full definition →

English mucus ← Latin mūcu ← Proto-Italic *moukos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)mewk-
  2. Proto-Italic*moukos
  3. Latinmūcu
  4. Englishmucus
  5. English todaymucal

From mucus + -al.

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