Mor
/mɔːr/noun
A variant spelling of “moor,” meaning open, uncultivated upland, usually covered with heath or coarse grass.
Did you know?The word belongs to an ancient Indo-European family connected with wetlands and bodies of water, linking the bleak English moor to Latin mare, “sea.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*móri
“A body of water, lake, or wetland”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*mōraz
“Marshland or uncultivated wet ground”
Old English
Old English
mōr
“A tract of open waste land, heath, or upland”
Middle English
Middle English
more
“A moor or open uncultivated tract”
Modern English
English
mor
“A variant spelling of “moor,” especially found in Scots and historical usage”