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Moss Mire — mossy mere or marsh. 



Ravock Mire — The Eev. W. E. Bell, to whom I am much in- 

 debted, says, he has conferred with some of his parishioners, 

 natives, and well acquainted with the nomenclature of the 

 county, and they understand by Eavock Mire (of the Ordnance 

 Surveyors), Rive-hoeh-mere, i.e., the boggy ground — to pass 

 through which sorely straias the hough or hock sinews of man 

 and beast. 



MiCKLE. MirCKLE, MxTCH. 



Icel. mikill, myhill, mihil, mikit ; Ulf . miJcih ; Hel. mikil. ; 

 A.-S. mid, mieel, mycel, mycle, micle, micla, miecle, mucel, muchel, 

 micclum. {myhyl. Prompt Parv.) 



Early Dan. mogel ; Mod. Dan. meget ; Sw. mychn, mycJca, 

 mychet. " 0. H. G. mihil ; (Al. mikit, mihhil; Grer. ant. micheP^) 

 "Mycken, magnus ; Pers. mih, magnus, mihier, major; Pol. moc; 

 Dal. moech; C. B. myg, notat moraliter magnum vel honoratum, 

 &c." Ihre. 



Mod. Ger. viel; Dut. and Plem. veel; Scotl. and "No. Engl. 

 mucMe, mickle, myche, meikle, and mair, more. 



Lat. muUus, magnus, a Hebrew xSo, plenitudo ; It. moUo ; 

 Sp. mucJio ; Port, muito ; Er. heaucoup, from heau and cop or coup, 

 a great stroke, hence much, a great deal. 



Gr. fjieyas, fieyaXos. 



"Wei. llawer; Gael, moran; "Manx mooar; Corn, mear, maur.''^ 

 Williams. 



In Bret, heaucoup is rendered " kalg, meiir, meitrhed, eUeia, 

 paot, kaer.''^ Le Gonidec. 



'^MicTie, michle, much, great." Halliwell. 



The modem Germans, the Dutch, the Flemish, and the French 

 have not followed either the northern or the southern people in 

 the adoption of this word for much, great, any more than the 

 "Welsh. The Mod. Germans, Dutch, and Flemish have a term 

 peculiar to themselves and the French another. But the Gael., 

 Manx, and Com. are like the English more, and the local 

 Northumberland and Scotch mair. The Italian, Spanish, and 



