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Moor means waste ground and to die, why would anyone call themselves a moor ? ignorance - moor (n.) Look up moor at Dictionary "waste ground," Old English mor "morass, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *mora- (cf. Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch meer "swamp," Old High German muor "swamp," also "sea," German Moor "moor," Old Norse mörr "moorland," marr "sea"), perhaps related to mere (n.), or from root *mer- "to die," hence "dead land."
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:04:12 +0000

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