Muir

Muir

A Muir is the Scots word for moorland, and Scots Gaelic for sea, and is the etymological origin of the surname and Clan Muir/Mure/Moore in Scotland and other parts of the world.

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Famous quotes containing the word muir:

    “Last night I watched my brothers play,
    The gentle and the reckless one,
    In a field two yards away.
    For half a century they were gone
    Beyond the other side of care
    To be among the peaceful dead.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “They do not live in the world,
    Are not in time and space.
    From birth to death hurled
    No word do they have, not one
    To plant a foot upon,
    Were never in any place.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,
    To his father’s house below securely bound.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)