moss – English noun declension

English noun forms of moss

Noun: moss
Singularmoss
Pluralmosses

Sample Sentences

  • Another says you should tense your body, look up in the air, and think about cool moss. [1989, Michael Sky, Dancing with the Fire, page 54:]
  • Spanish moss
  • Irish moss
  • club moss
  • the mosses of the Scottish border
  • Loynton Moss

Etymology

1. From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą (“bog, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with North Frisian möösk (“moss”), Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Alemannic German Mies (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss; lichen; marsh, swamp”), German and Luxembourgish Moos (“moss”), Low German Moss (“moss”), Danish mos (“moss”), mose (“bog; moor”), Faroese and Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Norwegian Bokmål mose (“moss”), Norwegian Nynorsk mose, Swedish mossa, mosse (“raised bog”); also Latin muscus (“moss”), Bulgarian мъх (măh, “moss”), Czech and Polish mech (“moss”), Macedonian мов (mov, “moss”), Russian and Ukrainian мох (mox, “moss”), Serbo-Croatian ма̀ховина, màhovina (“moss”), Slovak mach (“moss”), Slovene mah (“moss; raised bog; marsh; velvet; down, fluff”), Armenian մամուռ (mamuṙ, “moss”). Doublet of mousse. See: Old English Nouns 'mos', Dutch Nouns 'mos', Danish Nouns 'mos', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'mose', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'mose', Swedish Nouns 'mossa', Latin Nouns 'muscus', Bulgarian Nouns 'мъх', Slovak Nouns 'mach'.

Verbs referencing "moss"

English Nouns mire, Old English Nouns meos, Icelandic Nouns mosi.