Mu
A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.
Proper noun
- A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.
Origin
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.
Derived
Proper noun Entry 2
- Mu (a river in Burma).
Origin
Etymology tree Burmese မူး (mu:)bor. English Mu Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).
Noun
- μ (a mu particle)
Origin
Etymology tree Greek μ (m)bor. English Mu Borrowed from Greek μ (m).