Lemizh / English dictionary
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mràj.
to make 65536 individuals
Etymology
shortening, poststem from plural of
< NLem mra‑a
< LMLem mUrià‑yr
< Koi μυριά‑ς ‘ten thousand, countless numbers’, nominalisation of
Koi μυρί‑ος ‘countless’, of uncertain origin
This is a (probably academic) loan from the Greek word for 10,000, modelled after skmà. ‘256’, originally ‘100’.
Cognates
Eng myriad