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RodeEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- RodeMiddle English · word_rode_sb_1
Rode, sb. a road, a riding, SkD, WW, Sh.; rade, S2, JD; roade, WW; roode, place where vessels ride at anchor, bitalassum, Prompt.—AS. rád.
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Rode, sb. red complexion, C2, S2; see Rude.
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Are Greek mouse and muscle merely accidental homonyms?
The reviewed Liddell–Scott entry treats μῦς as one lexical entry with both rodent and body-muscle senses, and Modern Greek explicitly derives both learned senses from Ancient Greek.
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In Greek, a muscle is still a mouse.
Ancient Greek μῦς named both the rodent and a body muscle. Modern Greek μυς preserves the anatomical branch and records the mouse sense as learned vocabulary.
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