Meuse, Maas (a major river that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium and the Netherlands to the North Sea) · Meuse (a department of Grand Est, France)
Meuse, Maas (a major river that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium and the Netherlands to the North Sea) · Meuse (a department of Grand Est, France)
a river in the former Belgic Gaul, in modern France; modern Meuse or Maas
köken: From Celtic, deriving from Proto-Celtic *mosā, of uncertain origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mā- (“to stupefy”) in the sense of the river's tortuousness, cognate with Proto-Germanic *masōną (“to confound, be weary, dream”) (modern English maze), Welsh mydu (“to vault, arch”), Old Norse meis (“curvatura”). Or, Albrecht Greule writes that it could perhaps be from *meh₂d-,…
Meuse, Maas (a major river that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium and the Netherlands to the North Sea) · Meuse (a department of Grand Est, France)