NODE / 0132attestedOld English
mūs
mouse
- DATE
- Old English
- SENSE
- animal
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:3:mus:attested:sense:animal
The inherited Old English rodent word.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceprobable
Proto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic prehistory · animal*mūs
mouse
- SOUND
- Old English mūs continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *mūs, with cognates including German Maus and Dutch muis.
- MEANING
- The rodent meaning remained stable across the Germanic branch.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — Proto-Germanic *mūs is reconstructed from the attested Germanic forms.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinheritanceestablished
Middle English · Middle English · animalmous
mouse
- SOUND
- Middle English mous continues Old English mūs.
- MEANING
- The inherited word retained the meaning “mouse.”
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English mous continues Old English mūs.
- MEANING
- The inherited word retained the meaning “mouse.”
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 115 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English mous developed into modern mouse with the later spelling convention marking the diphthong.
- MEANING
- The central rodent meaning remained stable while transferred senses accumulated.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 114 ↗ “Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE