Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
plural of mouse
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).
From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmysenm
- Inherited-form mentionmȳsang · mice
- Inherited-form mention*mūsizgem-pro · mice
- Derivation mention*mūsgem-pro · mouse
- Cognate mentionmicesco
- Cognate mentionmûzenfy · mice
- Cognate mentionmuizennl · mice
- Cognate mentionMäusede · mice
- Cognate mentionmösssv · mice
- Cognate mentionmýsfo · mice
- Cognate mentionmýsis · mice
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