- muime
- a step-mother, nurse, Irish buime, muime, a nurse, Early Irish mumme, nurse, stepmother: *mud-s-mjâ, nurse, "suckler", root mud, suck; Latin mulier, woman; Greek $$Gmúxw, suck, $$Gmúdos, damp; Lithuanian máudyti, bath. It has also been paralleled to Latin mamma, German muhme, mother's sister, stepmother.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.