Talk:mush

Do we really think these senses have separate etymologies? -dmh 17:12, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably not all three, but I wouldn't be surprised if "mush!" to get sleigh dogs moving is a borrowing from an eskimo language and not at all related to mushy peas. &mdash; Hippietrail 04:28, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Possible, but all the senses seem onamotopoeic to me. We'll have to look it up some time. -dmh 19:13, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes and that's just what this category was designed for. To call attention to articles which may need to have etymology sections split or joined. &mdash; Hippietrail 23:57, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 *  American Heritage thinks that the dogsled one probably comes from French, and the mushy peas probably come from the word mash (mashing into mush?). They aren't certain about either, which raises doubts about our ability to be certain in the near future.  Given that, I'd say that they tentatively qualify as seperate lineages until evidence shows up to indicate otherwise.
 * OK, that's certainly good enough for me. -dmh 05:20, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I cant beleive that the South Wales useage is missing from this page, it is used extensively as a synonym for chav .. http://www.imeem.com/uzzy11/music/VHsrAofM/townhill_rap_oi_mush. Maybe nobody alse has an internet connection here..


 * See mush. DCDuring TALK 09:53, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

From Angloromani mush (“‘man’”), from Romanian murš, from Sanskrit (manuSya), “‘human being, man’”).
 * From Angloromani mush (“‘man’”), from Romani murš, from Sanskrit (manuSya), “‘human being, man’”).


 * Entirely correct objection; I've fixed that. Curiously, the word itself was correctly tagged as "lang=rom", i. e., Romani, but the language description had "ro", which is Romanian. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 14:25, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like an obvious typo, simply missing the 'm' off the end. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:03, 6 May 2012 (UTC)