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
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CONFIDENCE
established — Both the modern anatomical entry and its Ancient Greek source are directly documented.
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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.
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RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexical corpus recordprobable
Herodotus occurrence reported by the Liddell–Scott entry