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Mu en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

Deriveds

Muvian

wikipedia: De Landa alphabet · wikipedia: Madrid Codex (Maya) · wikipedia: Augustus Le Plongeon · wikipedia: Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg

Source: en.wiktionary, “Mu” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mu en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μ (m).

Meanings

  1. μ (a mu particle)

Forms

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Source: en.wiktionary, “Mu” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mu en · PROPN · etymology 3

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

Meanings

  1. Mu (a river in Burma).