Noun: mus
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | musa |
| Pl. | mysene; musene |
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Etymology
1. From Old Norse mús (nominative and accusative plurals mýss), from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse, a coinage.
2. Germanic cognates include Icelandic mús, Faroese mús, Danish mus, Swedish mus, German Maus, German Low German Muus, Dutch muis, and English mouse. Indo-European cognates include Albanian mi, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Armenian մուկ (muk), Hindi मूस (mūs), Latin mūs, Persian موش, and Russian мышь (myšʹ).
3. (computing): Semantic loan from English mouse. See: Icelandic Nouns '
mús', Faroese Nouns '
mús', Danish Nouns '
mus', Swedish Nouns '
mus', German Nouns '
Maus', Dutch Nouns '
muis', English Nouns '
mouse', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μῦς', Latin Nouns '
mus', Russian Nouns '
мышь'.
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