Muir
/mjʊər/noun
A Scottish word for a moor or open upland heath.
Did you know?Muir is a Scots form of the same Germanic root behind English moor, and in old landscape language these words named bleak open ground often linked in folklore with eerie lights, travelers, and the dead.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*mori-
“Body of water; sea, lake, or marshy expanse”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*mari / *mōrą
“Sea or marsh; later open wet land”
Old English
OE
mōr
“Moor, marsh, waste upland”
Old Norse
ON
mýrr
“Bog, swamp”
Middle Scots
Scots
muir
“Moors, wild upland heath”
Modern English
English
muir
“Scottish word for a moor or heath”