Mu.
A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.
Meaning & usage
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.
μ (a mu particle)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Greek μ (m).
Mu (a river in Burma).
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).
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