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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
muran, sea-bent, Ir. muraineach, bent grass; from muir, the sea. Norse has mura, goose-grass.
murcach, sorrowful, Ir. murcach, múrcach; cf. M. Br. morchet, anxiety, now morc'hed, Cor. moreth, chagrin. Eng. murky, Norse myrkr could only be allied by borrowing. Cf. Lat. marceo, droop.
mùrla, a coat of mail:
murlach, the king-fisher:
murlag, murluinn, a kind of basket, murlach, fishing basket (M'A.), Ir. muirleog, a rod basket for sand eels and wilks (Donegal). Cf. Sc. murlain, a narrow-mouthed basket of a round form.
murlan, rough head of hair:
murrach, able, rich, murrtha, successful, M. Ir. muire, muiredach, lord, Murdoch; Ag. S. maere, clarus, Norse maerr, famous (Stokes), same root as mór.
murt, murder; see mort.
murtachd, sultry heat, weariness produced by heat:
mus, before, ere; cf. O. Ir. mos, soon, mox, used as a verbal particle; it is allied to moch, being from *moqsu, Lat. mox.
musach, nasty, Ir. mosach (O'R., Sh.), W. mws, effluvia, stinking, Br. mous, muck, mouz, crepitus ventris: *musso-, *mud-so-, root mud, be foul or wet; Gr. μúσος (= μúδ-σος), defilement, μúδος, clamminess, decay; Lit. mudas, dirty sea-grass: root mu (mū), soil, befoul, G. mùin, Eng. mud, etc.
musg, a musket, Ir. músgaid, L.M. Ir. muscaed (F.M.); from the Eng.
mùsg, rheum about the eyes, gore of the eyes; from the root mû, befoul, be wet, as discussed under musach, mùin.
musgan, dry-rot in wood, Ir. musgan, mustiness, mouldiness; Lat. muscus, moss; Eng. moss, mushroom; Lit. musai (pl.), mould. This word is not in H.S.D., but it is implied in Arm. and is in M'E.; also in common use.
mùsgan, pith of wood, porous part of a bone (H.S.D.). Armstron gives also the meanings attached to musgan, above; the words are evidently the same.
mùsgan, the horse fish:
mùsuinn, confusion, tumult, Ir. múisiún, codlata, hazy state preceding sleep. From Eng. motion?
mutach, short, E. Ir. mut, everything short: *mutto-, root mut, dock; Lat. mutilus, maimed (Eng. mutilate), muticus, docked; Gr. μίτυλος, hornless.
mùtan, mutan, a muff, fingerless glove, also mutag (Arms.); from miotag, with a leaning on mutach, short. Thurneysen takes
