Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail. · Such a rodent that is of the genus Mus. · A quiet or shy person. · A familiar term of endearment.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Germanic *mūs Proto-West Germanic *mūs Old English mūs Middle English mous English mouse Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Faroese and Icelandic mús). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ). The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Cognate mentionmūsofs
- Cognate mentionmūsosx
- Cognate mentionmuisnl
- Cognate mentionmūsgoh
- Cognate mentionMausde
- Cognate mentionmúsnon
- Cognate mentionμῦςgrc
- Cognate mentionmūsla
- Cognate mentionmures
- Cognate mentionմուկhy
- Cognate mentionмꙑшьcu
- Cognate mentionмышьru
- Cognate mentionmisq
- Cognate mentionموشfa
- Cognate mentionmişkkmr
- Cognate mentionमूष्sa
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