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Mu.

A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

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Meaning & usage

name
  1. A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

Where this word comes from

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.

noun
  1. μ (a mu particle)

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Greek μ (m).

name
  1. Mu (a river in Burma).

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

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