NODE / 0279attestedModern Greek
μυς
TRANSLITERATION mysPRONUNCIATION /mis/
a body muscle; in learned use, also a mouse
- DATE
- Modern Greek
- SENSE
- anatomical muscle
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:29:mūs:attested:sense:anatomical-muscle
The Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek records the anatomical sense and a learned mouse sense from Ancient Greek.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
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GO DEEPERhistorical continuationestablished
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek literary record · mouse muscle polysemyμῦς
mouse; also a muscle of the body
- SOUND
- Ancient long /yː/ develops through Greek iotacism to Modern Greek /i/, while polytonic μῦς is written monotonic μυς.
- MEANING
- The anatomical muscle sense becomes the ordinary modern center; the mouse sense survives as learned vocabulary while everyday Greek normally uses another rodent word.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Ancient Greek to Modern Greek.
- SCHOLAR
- Centre for the Greek Language editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Both the modern anatomical entry and its Ancient Greek source are directly documented.
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03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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