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Etymology

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Chambers 1908 offers different etymologies: Italian, from Low Latin morellus, blackish, Latin maurus, a blackamoor, or perhaps for morulus, blackish, morum, a mulberry. Equinox 23:44, 10 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

I found this [morelle]:

Étymol. et Hist. A. Subst. ca 1180 morel «cheval noir» (Fierabras, 173 ds T.-L.). B. Adj. 1remoitié du .iiies. [ms.] «brun foncé, noir (d'un cheval)» (Pastourelles, XLVIII, éd. J.-Cl. Rivière, t.2, p.78, 41: palefroit morel); 1455-57 [ms.] cheval moreau (Comptes des mines de Jacques Coeur, Arch. KK 329, fo184 rods Gdf.). D'un lat. pop. *maurellus «brun comme un Maure», dér. de Maurus, v. maure (cf. le nom propre Maurellus att. en lat. d'Espagne au viiies., d'apr. FEW t.6, 1, p.556a, note 22; d'où Morel, comme nom de cheval en a. fr.: 1180-90, Alexandre de Paris, Alexandre, éd. Elliott Monographs, 37, p.235, 4130). 

@Equinox

See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CF%89%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek

Zezen (talk) 08:58, 10 September 2020 (UTC)Reply