Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/múh₂s: difference between revisions

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Noun

*múh₂s

1. mouse

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *mū-
  • Albanian: mi m
• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: մուկն (mukn) (possibly from accusative singular *muh₂s-m)
    • Armenian: մուկ (muk)
• Germanic: *mūs (see there for further descendants)
• Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: μῦς m (mûs), genitive μυός (muós)
• Indo-Iranian:
  • Indic:
    • Sanskrit: मूष् f or m (mūṣ)
  • Iranian: *mūš-
    • Western Iranian:
      • Baluchi: مشک (mušk), موشک (múšk)
      • Middle Persian: mwšk' (mušk)
        • Persian: موش (muš), (dialectal) مشک (mošk)
          • Tajik: муш (muš)
      • Kurdish:
    • Eastern Iranian:
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬏𐬱 (mūš-, “name of a Pairikā or sorceress”)
      • Chorasmian: [script needed] (muf)
      • Khotanese: [script needed] (mūla-, “rat”) < *mūž-la-
      • Ossetian:
        • Digor: мистӕ (mistæ)
        • Iron: мыст (myst)
      • Pashto: مږک m (maẓ̌ak, “mouse”), مږه f (maẓ̌a, “rat”)
      • Sogdian: mwš (mūš)
        • Yagnobi: муш (muš)
• Italic: *mūs
  • Latin: mūs m or f, genitive muris
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Occitan: mirga
      • Romansh: mieur f
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Portuguese: mur m
      • Portuguese: mure, muro
      • Spanish: mur m
• Slavic: *myšь f (see there for further descendants)

References

• Bailey, H. W. (1979) “mūla-”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 337ab
• Abajev, V. I. (1973) “myst | mistæ”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 142–143

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