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MULTI-WORD EVIDENCE LAB
PAIRWISE LAB ↗THE QUESTION THE GRAPH WAS BUILT TO ANSWER2–8 WORDS
CONNECT
THE WHOLE
FAMILY.
Ask how several words are related. *SET-U computes pairwise shortest paths, then builds a compact spanning forest from cited lexical edges. A shared person or text may bridge islands, but it is never mislabeled as ancestry.
Distinct forms in the spanning evidence network.
Distinct cited lexical relationships used.
Distinct bibliographic records supporting this view.
ONE REVIEWED NETWORK3 lexical branches · 0 context bridges
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THE SPANNING EVIDENCE FOREST
3 BRANCHES CONNECT THE RESOLVED WORDS
REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH
6 EDGESmouse ↔ μυς
01
Present-Day English · before the 12th century–today
attestedmouse
a small rodent; later many transferred senses
continuation
The central rodent meaning remained stable while transferred senses accumulated.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English mous developed into modern mouse with the later spelling convention marking the diphthong.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors · establishedMouse — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 114 ↗02
Middle English · Middle English
attestedmous
mouse
inheritance
The inherited word retained the meaning “mouse.”
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English mous continues Old English mūs.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors · establishedMouse — Word History · Middle English from Old English mūs ↗OPEN EDGE 115 ↗03
Old English · Old English
attestedmūs
mouse
inheritance
The rodent meaning remained stable across the Germanic branch.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Old English mūs continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *mūs, with cognates including German Maus and Dutch muis.
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC · probableMouse — Word History · Germanic origin and cognates ↗OPEN EDGE 116 ↗04
Proto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic prehistory
reconstructed*mūs
mouse
inheritance
The inherited meaning remains “mouse.”
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Proto-Germanic *mūs continues Proto-Indo-European *mūs-, reconstructed from Germanic, Latin, Greek, and other comparanda.
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC · probableIndo-European Root mūs- · mūs- root entry ↗OPEN EDGE 117 ↗05
Proto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European prehistory
reconstructed*mūs-
mouse; also the family behind specialized muscle words
inheritance
The inherited mouse word also acquires the anatomical muscle sense within Greek.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Greek μῦς preserves the inherited long-vowel mouse stem represented by reconstructed *mūs-; the inflected stem appears as μυ-.
Liddell and Scott · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · University of Texas LRC · probableIndo-European Root mūs- · Indo-European root mūs-, Greek and Latin reflexes ↗OPEN EDGE 274 ↗06
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek literary record
attestedμῦς
mouse; also a muscle of the body
historical continuation
The anatomical muscle sense becomes the ordinary modern center; the mouse sense survives as learned vocabulary while everyday Greek normally uses another rodent word.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Ancient long /yː/ develops through Greek iotacism to Modern Greek /i/, while polytonic μῦς is written monotonic μυς.
Centre for the Greek Language editors · establishedμῦς — Liddell and Scott Ancient Greek Dictionary · Headword μῦς, senses I and II ↗OPEN EDGE 273 ↗REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH
7 EDGESmuscle ↔ mussel
01
Present-Day English · 14th century–today
attestedmuscle
contractile body tissue; later strength or coercive power
continuation
The anatomical meaning remained central and later extended to strength and coercive power.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English muscle continued into modern English with regular orthographic and phonological development.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 101 ↗02
Middle English · Middle English
attestedmuscle
a muscle or muscular organ
borrowing
The anatomical name remained a muscle term.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English muscle borrowed the Old French form with English pronunciation and spelling adaptation.
American Heritage Dictionary editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Middle English and Old French ancestry ↗OPEN EDGE 102 ↗03
Old French · Old French
attestedmuscle
muscle
borrowing
The Latin anatomical name remained a muscle term.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Old French muscle continues Latin musculus through the Romance transmission channel.
American Heritage Dictionary editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Old French from Latin musculus ↗OPEN EDGE 103 ↗04
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedmusculus
little mouse; muscle; also a mussel name
derivation
The mouse-derived Latin word was used as a name for the bivalve mollusk.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Medieval or Vulgar Latin mūscula is the feminine variant of Latin musculus.
American Heritage · Merriam-Webster editors · probableMussel — Word History · Latin musculus / *muscula family ↗OPEN EDGE 110 ↗05
Medieval Latin · Medieval or Vulgar Latin
attestedmūscula
a mussel
borrowing
The Latin mollusk name entered Old English without a major semantic change.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Old English muscelle was borrowed from the Latin mussel form represented as Medieval Latin mūscula or Vulgar Latin *muscula.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors · probableMussel — Word History · Vulgar Latin *muscula ↗OPEN EDGE 109 ↗06
Old English · Old English
attestedmuscelle
a mussel
inheritance
The word continues to denote the bivalve mollusk.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English muscle continues Old English muscelle with reduction and remodeling of the final syllables.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors · establishedMussel — Word History · Old English muscelle ↗OPEN EDGE 108 ↗07
Middle English · Middle English
attestedmuscle
a mussel
alteration
The mollusk meaning remained stable while spelling separated it from anatomical muscle.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Modern mussel replaces Middle English muscle; American Heritage says the current spelling was perhaps influenced by Dutch mossel.
American Heritage · Merriam-Webster editors · probableMussel — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 107 ↗REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH
7 EDGESmuscle ↔ μυς
01
Present-Day English · 14th century–today
attestedmuscle
contractile body tissue; later strength or coercive power
continuation
The anatomical meaning remained central and later extended to strength and coercive power.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English muscle continued into modern English with regular orthographic and phonological development.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 101 ↗02
Middle English · Middle English
attestedmuscle
a muscle or muscular organ
borrowing
The anatomical name remained a muscle term.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle English muscle borrowed the Old French form with English pronunciation and spelling adaptation.
American Heritage Dictionary editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Middle English and Old French ancestry ↗OPEN EDGE 102 ↗03
Old French · Old French
attestedmuscle
muscle
borrowing
The Latin anatomical name remained a muscle term.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Old French muscle continues Latin musculus through the Romance transmission channel.
American Heritage Dictionary editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Old French from Latin musculus ↗OPEN EDGE 103 ↗04
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedmusculus
little mouse; muscle; also a mussel name
diminutive derivation
“Little mouse” named a muscle and also supplied a Latin name for the mussel; the anatomical resemblance mechanism is not fixed here.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Latin musculus is the diminutive formation built from mūs with the suffix -culus.
American Heritage · Merriam-Webster editors · establishedMuscle — Word History · Latin musculus, diminutive of mūs ↗OPEN EDGE 104 ↗05
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedmūs
mouse
inheritance
The inherited mouse word also generated specialized muscle and mussel terms in Latin.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Latin mūs continues the Indo-European *mūs- mouse word; the family also includes Germanic *mūs- and Greek mūs.
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC · probableIndo-European Root mūs- · mūs- root entry ↗OPEN EDGE 105 ↗06
Proto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European prehistory
reconstructed*mūs-
mouse; also the family behind specialized muscle words
inheritance
The inherited mouse word also acquires the anatomical muscle sense within Greek.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Greek μῦς preserves the inherited long-vowel mouse stem represented by reconstructed *mūs-; the inflected stem appears as μυ-.
Liddell and Scott · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · University of Texas LRC · probableIndo-European Root mūs- · Indo-European root mūs-, Greek and Latin reflexes ↗OPEN EDGE 274 ↗07
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek literary record
attestedμῦς
mouse; also a muscle of the body
historical continuation
The anatomical muscle sense becomes the ordinary modern center; the mouse sense survives as learned vocabulary while everyday Greek normally uses another rodent word.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Ancient long /yː/ develops through Greek iotacism to Modern Greek /i/, while polytonic μῦς is written monotonic μυς.
Centre for the Greek Language editors · establishedμῦς — Liddell and Scott Ancient Greek Dictionary · Headword μῦς, senses I and II ↗OPEN EDGE 273 ↗03
WHAT THIS VIEW PROVES
COMPACT DOES NOT MEAN CERTAIN
Every resolved pair is searched through the undirected reviewed graph, bounded at 12 edges.
Cited ancestry, borrowing, derivation, and semantic continuation paths are preferred over historical-context bridges.
The shortest available pair paths are greedily selected until each connectable word belongs to one network.
This is a compact evidence view, not a claim that scholarship has one uniquely minimal family tree.