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Mire

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means an area of wet, muddy ground, or a difficult, entangling situation
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Stage 1 of 2
myrr
Old Norse · medieval
"a bog, swampy ground"
a bog, an area of wet, swampy ground
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Stage 2 of 2
mire
English · 1300s
"an area of wet, muddy ground"
settled as the English word for wet, muddy ground
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