Pronounced: MULL-yuhn, noun
Notes: I have often heard this word, but I didn’t know the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word eldritch means “weird; eerie”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1500s
Background / Comments
For some reason, I thought our word was some kind of tree (I may have been confusing it with the “Ellcrys”, a tree featured in the book The Elfstones of Shannara, which I read a long time ago). Our word is believed to have come from the Middle English word elfriche (fairyland), which is made up of the Old English words œlf (elf) and rīce (kingdom).
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