mu-sicknessn.

Brit.

/ˈmuːsɪknəs/, U.S.

/ˈmuˌsɪknəs/, Scottish English

/ˈmusɪknəs/

Forms: 1800s– moor-sickness, 1800s– mua-sickness, 1900s– møa-sickness, 1900s– mu-sickness.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English mu , sickness n.

Etymology: < Shetland Scots mu, mø, in the same sense ( < the unattested Norn reflexes of the early Scandinavian words represented respectively by Old Icelandic móðr (see mothe adj.) and mœði (see maedi n.)) + sickness n.; compare Norwegian modsott, Danish modsot sickness characterized by a feeling of exhaustion.Forms in moor- represent a reanalysis by folk etymology as if < moor n.¹ (compare moor-evil n., moor-ill n., moor v.²).

Scottish (Shetland).

A wasting disease of sheep; spec. liver rot (hepatic fascioliasis) and cobalt deficiency. Cf. moor-ill n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > diarrhoea

shiteOE

skitc1440

wood-evil?1523

moor-ill1556

ray1577

shoot1587

scouring1597

moor-evil1611

scour1764

rush?1771

mu-sickness1809

washiness1844

teart1896

Johne's disease1906

paratuberculosis1913

teartness1940

1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 224 The Mua sickness, or rot, is also one of the diseases with which the Zetland sheep are affected. The insects which infest the liver in this complaint, are often three quarters of an inch in diameter, and flap vigorously on a table when removed from their nidus.

1814 J. Shirreff Gen. View Agric. Shetland 66 A pining, or wasting, called provincially the moor-sickness, affects sheep, chiefly in autumn.

1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 574/2 Mu-sickness (in several places in Mainland).

1958 New Scientist 13 Mar. 19/1 Cobalt bullets shot into the fore-stomach of sheep will cure and even prevent animals from contracting the wasting disease variously called pine, daising, moor sickness, coast disease, bush sickness or salt sickness.

1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles liv. 454 Liver-fluke or sheep rot is mu, mu- (or moor-) sickness..in Shetland.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mu-sickness
释义	mu-sicknessn. Brit. /ˈmuːsɪknəs/, U.S. /ˈmuˌsɪknəs/, Scottish English /ˈmusɪknəs/ Forms: 1800s– moor-sickness, 1800s– mua-sickness, 1900s– møa-sickness, 1900s– mu-sickness. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English mu , sickness n. Etymology: < Shetland Scots mu, mø, in the same sense ( < the unattested Norn reflexes of the early Scandinavian words represented respectively by Old Icelandic móðr (see mothe adj.) and mœði (see maedi n.)) + sickness n.; compare Norwegian modsott, Danish modsot sickness characterized by a feeling of exhaustion.Forms in moor- represent a reanalysis by folk etymology as if < moor n.¹ (compare moor-evil n., moor-ill n., moor v.²). Scottish (Shetland). A wasting disease of sheep; spec. liver rot (hepatic fascioliasis) and cobalt deficiency. Cf. moor-ill n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > diarrhoea shiteOE skitc1440 wood-evil?1523 moor-ill1556 ray1577 shoot1587 scouring1597 moor-evil1611 scour1764 rush?1771 mu-sickness1809 washiness1844 teart1896 Johne's disease1906 paratuberculosis1913 teartness1940 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 224 The Mua sickness, or rot, is also one of the diseases with which the Zetland sheep are affected. The insects which infest the liver in this complaint, are often three quarters of an inch in diameter, and flap vigorously on a table when removed from their nidus. 1814 J. Shirreff Gen. View Agric. Shetland 66 A pining, or wasting, called provincially the moor-sickness, affects sheep, chiefly in autumn. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 574/2 Mu-sickness (in several places in Mainland). 1958 New Scientist 13 Mar. 19/1 Cobalt bullets shot into the fore-stomach of sheep will cure and even prevent animals from contracting the wasting disease variously called pine, daising, moor sickness, coast disease, bush sickness or salt sickness. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles liv. 454 Liver-fluke or sheep rot is mu, mu- (or moor-) sickness..in Shetland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1809
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