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Indo-European Lexicon: mūs-

AUTHOR / EDITOR
University of Texas Linguistics Research Center
YEAR
2026
PUBLISHER
University of Texas at Austin
DOI
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SOURCE TYPE
scholarly lexicon
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RANK 149GRADE Acontext

English mouse is not a Latin loan.

English mouse follows its inherited Germanic line while Latin mūs is a cognate branch. Their resemblance reflects common ancestry, not a direct Latin-to-English borrowing.

*mūs-

*mūs- → *mūs → mūs → mous → mouse

Germanic comparanda

Places Germanic and Latin forms as parallel reflexes of the reconstructed family.

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EDGE 105supportsprobable

mūs → *mūs-

Latin → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND
Latin mūs continues the Indo-European *mūs- mouse word; the family also includes Germanic *mūs- and Greek mūs.
MEANING
The inherited mouse word also generated specialized muscle and mussel terms in Latin.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC
Pokorny etymon mūs

Cross-branch lexical reconstruction.

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EDGE 116supportsprobable

mūs → *mūs

Old English → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

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 / EDITOR
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC
Germanic comparanda
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EDGE 117supportsprobable

*mūs → *mūs-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND
Proto-Germanic *mūs continues Proto-Indo-European *mūs-, reconstructed from Germanic, Latin, Greek, and other comparanda.
MEANING
The inherited meaning remains “mouse.”
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
American Heritage Indo-European Roots · University of Texas LRC
Pokorny etymon mūs
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EDGE 274contextprobable

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
Indo-European Lexicon mūs-, Greek reflex

Provides independent comparative support for the reconstructed mouse family.

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mouse

mūs

Greek

Indo-European cognate with mouse and muscle senses

mussel

Muschel

German

Germanic cognate in the mussel family

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mouse8 CLAIM LINKS↗muscle1 CLAIM LINKS↗mussel2 CLAIM LINKS↗μυς2 CLAIM LINKS↗

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