[Sca-cooks] Murri and muria

Suey lordhunt at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 11:20:22 PDT 2007


Terry Decker wrote:
>  What is the etymology of the word "murri?"  
The Real Academia Espanol Dictionary states that it comes from Classical 
Arabic "murri", this from Armenian "murya", and this is from the Latin 
"muria, salmuera"  (brine, very salty water used in preserved food).
Salmuera in literally means sal del mar - salt from the sea.
Suey


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