mouise

pap, porridge; penury, poverty, hardship

From Alemannic German Mues, Müs (“porridge, gruel, mush”), from Middle High German muos, from Old High German muos (“porridge, food, meal, dish”), from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“food, porridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Dutch moes (“puree, mush, gruel”), Old English mōs (“food, victuals”). More at moose, muesli.