μῦς

See also: μυς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μῡών (mūṓn)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mū́s, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates include Latin mūs, Sanskrit मूष् (mū́ṣ), Old Armenian մուկն (mukn) and Old English mūs (English mouse).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mŷːs/ → /mys/ → /mis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mŷːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mis/

Noun

μῦς • (mûs) m (genitive μῠός); third declension

1. mouse
2. A type of mussel
3. A type of whale
4. muscle

Inflection

Irregular declension of ὁ μῦς; τοῦ μῠός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῦς ho mûs	τὼ μῠ́ε tṑ mŭ́e	οἱ μῠ́ες hoi mŭ́es
Genitive	τοῦ μῠός toû mŭós	τοῖν μῠοῖν toîn mŭoîn	τῶν μῠῶν tôn mŭôn
Dative	τῷ μῠῐ̈́ tôi mŭĭ̈́	τοῖν μῠοῖν toîn mŭoîn	τοῖς μῡσῐ́ / μῡσῐ́ν / μῠσῐ́ / μῠσῐ́ν toîs mūsĭ́(n) / mŭsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν μῦν tòn mûn	τὼ μῠ́ε tṑ mŭ́e	τοὺς μῦς toùs mûs
Vocative	μῦ mû	μῠ́ε mŭ́e	μῠ́ες mŭ́es
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῡγᾰλέη (mūgăléē)
• μυοσωτίς (muosōtís)
• μυωξίᾱ (muōxíā)
• μυωπίᾱ (muōpíā)

Descendants

• Greek: μυς (mys)
• → Latin: mūsculus (“small mouse; muscle”) (semantic loan)
• →? Old Georgian: თაგუნი (taguni, “muscle”, literally “small mouse”) (semantic loan)

References

• “μῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mouse idem, page 544.
  • muscle idem, page 547.
  • shell idem, page 764.