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Etymology
Several hypotheses exist:
 * From, from + , whence.
 * From, from , since all the most important cult-centres of the Muses were on mountains or hills, but Beekes finds this etymology impossible, as the root mont- 'mountain' from IE *men- is not found in Greek.
 * From, . Cognate with , , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Beekes suggests the possibility of a borrowing from.
 * Swerdlow traces it back to Bohairic Coptic Egyptian mōw—apparently cognate with Hebrew משה, Moses—medieval sources mentioning that, like the prophet, “music was found by the water.”

Proper noun

 * 1) Muse