PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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The cross-branch mouse word is reconstructed as PIE *mūs-, while any deeper ancestor remains outside the reviewed evidence.
/maʊs/ · noun
The inherited English name of the small rodent, continued from Old English mūs and the reconstructed Indo-European *mūs- family.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Publishes the reconstructed Indo-European root and its daughter forms.
mūs- root entryProvides an independent comparative reconstruction.
Pokorny etymon mūsThe reconstruction is admitted as probable and ends at an explicit UNKNOWN boundary.