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μῦς — Liddell and Scott Ancient Greek Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- H. G. Liddell and R. Scott; Centre for the Greek Language editors
- YEAR
- 2007
- PUBLISHER
- Centre for the Greek Language
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 168GRADE Asupports
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.
*mūs-
*mūs- → μῦς → μυς
Headword μῦς, senses I and IIDocuments the rodent and body-muscle senses in Ancient Greek.
μυς dossier ↗truth record ↗85UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
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.
Headword μῦς, senses I and IIRecords mouse and body muscle under the same Ancient Greek headword.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 273supportsestablished
μυς → μῦς
Modern Greek → Ancient Greek · historical continuation
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Centre for the Greek Language editors
Headword μῦς, senses I and IIDocuments both mouse and body-muscle senses in Ancient Greek.
EDGE 274supportsprobable
μῦς → *mūs-
Ancient Greek → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance
- SOUND
- Greek μῦς preserves the inherited long-vowel mouse stem represented by reconstructed *mūs-; the inflected stem appears as μυ-.
- MEANING
- The inherited mouse word also acquires the anatomical muscle sense within Greek.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Liddell and Scott · American Heritage Dictionary Editors · University of Texas LRC
Headword μῦς, senses I and IISupplies the attested Greek form and its mouse-to-muscle polysemy.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
μυςSOURCE-REPORTED
μῦς
Herodotus occurrence reported by the Liddell–Scott entry
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
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stage 2supports
Ancient Greek literary world
Records mouse uses in the Batrachomyomachia, Herodotus, and Theocritus.
Headword μῦς, sense I and cited authors · broadstage 3supports
Ancient Greek anatomical vocabulary
Records the body-muscle sense in the same Ancient Greek lexical entry.
Headword μῦς, sense II · broad070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
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