Proto-Indo-European
Noun
*múh₂s
- mouse
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *mū-
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: մուկն (mukn) (possibly from accusative singular *muh₂s-m)
- 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)
- Kurdish: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
- Eastern Iranian:
- Avestan: 𐬨𐬏𐬱 (mūš-, “name of a Pairikā or sorceress”)
- Chorasmian: [script needed] (muf)
- Khotanese: [script needed] (mūla-, “rat”) < *mūž-la-
- Ossetian:
- Pashto: مږک m (maẓ̌ak, “mouse”), مږه f (maẓ̌a, “rat”)
- Sogdian: mwš (mūš)
- Italic: *mūs
- Latin: mūs m or f, genitive muris
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- 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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