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English word muse comes from Proto-Germanic *mōtōną (To be available, unrestricted. To be idle, at leisure.)
*mōtōną (Proto-Germanic)
To be available, unrestricted. To be idle, at leisure.
*gimōtōn (Frankish)
*muso (Latin)
(Vulgar Latin) I gape, idly stare. (Vulgar Latin) I idly wait. (Vulgar Latin) I leisurely wander (in one's mind).
muser (Old French)
To loiter; waste time. To ponder; to think about. To stare at in amazement.
musen (Middle English)
muse (English)
An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.. (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.. (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.. (transitive) To wonder at.