mire

Mane (English)

Noun

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Verb

1. To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
2. To sink into mud.
3. To weigh down.
4. To soil with mud or foul matter.

Synonyms

mud

bog

marsh

sludge

slime

quagmire

swamp

slough

muck

ooze

slush

dirt

silt

morass

fen

bog down

clay

get stuck

quag

muddy place

entangle

muddy

puddle

muck up

slack

soil

jam

swampland

filth

wet mud

loam

grind to a halt

soft mud

draggle

slop

swale

swampy

taint

trap

🪤

wallow

welter

mudhole

mud puddle

smutch

wet dirt

muddy up

covered with dirt

Moor

sighting marker

alluvium

bayou

bedaub

bedraggle

befoul

bemire

besmirch

bespatter

blot out

catch

daub

defile

dirty

dregs

earth

fail

filthy

foul

grime

immaterial

lees

lock

🔒

maculate

mortar

pin

punctuation

reservoir

seaweeds

sediment

slab

slosh

slubber

stall

stick

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

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Etîmolojî (English)

Inherited from Middle English: mire

Cognate with swêdî: myr

Cognate with norwecî: myr

Cognate with îzlendî: mýri

Cognate with holendî:

Cognate with Old English: mēos

Cognate with Old English: mos

Cognate with îngilîzî: moss

In summary

From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).