The story
- Latin · derived frommoratum
- Middle French · derived frommoré
- Middle English · inherited frommurrey
- English todaymurrey
From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.