mus

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Translingual

Symbol

mus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Muscogee.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Creek terms

English

Noun

mus

1. plural of mu

Anagrams

• UMs, sum, MSU, UMS, Sum, ums

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch muts, from Middle Dutch mutse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mœs/

Noun

mus (plural musse)

1. soft brimless hat, tuque

Asturian

Alternative forms

• mux
• musu
• muxu
• mis
• mix

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/, [ˈmus]

Interjection

mus

1. interjection used to call cats

Derived terms

• muxín

Basque

Etymology

From earlier mux, probably from French mouche (“fly”). However, compare musu (“kiss”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mus inan

1. (card games) A traditional Basque card game.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːˀs/, [muˀs]

Noun

mus c (singular definite musen, plural indefinite mus)

1. mouse (animal)
2. mouse (for a computer)

Inflection

Declension of mus

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mus	musen	mus	musene
genitive	mus'	musens	mus'	musenes

Derived terms

• spidsmus c

Dutch

Een paar mussen op een geliefde voederplaats. — A couple of sparrows on a favourite foraging location.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mussche, from Old Dutch musca, from Latin muscio, derived from musca (“fly”).

Cognate with Limburgish mösj, Central Franconian Mösch, Mesch, Luxembourgish Mësch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʏs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

Noun

mus f (plural mussen, diminutive musje n)

1. sparrow, bird of the family Passeridae, especially of the genus Passer and a few smaller genera

Derived terms

• grasmus
• heggenmus
• huismus
• moabmus
• musvalk
• ringmus
• rotsmus
• slootmus

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mossie
• → Papiamentu: mùs

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nos, from Latin nōs (“we; us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Pronoun

mus

1. (Lagarteiru) First person plural dative and accusative pronoun; us

See also

Fala personal pronouns

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular		ei	me, -mi		mi
	plural	common	nos	musL nusLV nos, -nusM		nos
		masculine	noshotrusM			noshotrusM
		feminine	noshotrasM			noshotrasM
second person	singular		tú	te, -ti		ti
	plural	common	vos	vusLV vos, -vusM		vos
		masculine	voshotrusM			voshotrusM
		feminine	voshotrasM			voshotrasM
third person	singular	masculine	el	le, -li	uLV, oM	el
		feminine	ela		a	ela
	plural	masculine	elis		usLV, osM	elis
		feminine	elas		as	elas
	reflexive		—	se, -si		sí

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada):

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Verb

mus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of mouvoir

Participle

mus m pl

1. masculine plural of mû

Interlingua

Noun

mus (plural muses)

1. mouse

   Synonym: mure

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s. Cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Sanskrit मूष् (mū́ṣ), Old English mūs (English mouse), Old High German mūs (German Maus), Proto-Slavic *myšь (Russian мышь (myšʹ)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /muːs/, [muːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mus/, [mus]

Noun

mūs m or f (genitive mūris); third declension

1. a mouse, rat
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 1.2.6:

     quasi mures semper edere alienum cibum

     Like mice they always ate the food of other people

2. a sea mouse (Aphrodita aculeata)
3. (New Latin) a computer mouse

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mūrēs
genitive	mūris	mūrium
dative	mūrī	mūribus
accusative	mūrem	mūrēs mūrīs
ablative	mūre	mūribus
vocative	mūs	mūrēs

Derived terms

• mūris
  • Italian: mure (archaic)
  • Romansch: mieur
  • ⇒ Venetan: moreja, morecia
  • Occitan:
    • ⇒ Provençal: muret (“marmot”)
    • ⇒ Vivaro-Alpine: muret (“marmot”)

      Valadas: mure (“marmot”)

  • Asturian: mur, mure
    • ⇒ Asturian: murar
    • ⇒ Asturian: murera (“mousehole”)
  • ⇒ Leonese: murar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mur
    • ⇒ Galician: murar
    • ⇒ Portuguese: murar

      Trasmontano: muro (“mouse”)

  • Old Spanish: mur
    • ⇒ Old Spanish: murar
• mūris caecus
  • Aragonese: moriciego
  • Asturian: morciéganu
  • Catalan: muricec
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: *murcego
    • Galician: morcego, murcego, muricego
    • Portuguese: morcego
  • Old Spanish: murciego
    • ⇒ Spanish: murciégalo, murciélago
  • Vulgar Latin: *mūrecaecus
    • Catalan: muriac
      • ⇒ Catalan: asmuriac, asmuriec
• mūris montānus
  • Old Franco-Provençal: murmontan
    • → Old French: murmontain, marmotaine, marmotan, marmontaine (influenced by marmot)
      • Middle French: marmote
        • French: marmotte (see there for further descendants)
        • → English: marmot
        • → Italian: marmotta
  • Romansch: murmont (Engadin)
  • → Old High German: murmento, murmunto, muremento (see there for further descendants)
• *mūricāneus
• mūricīdus
• mūrilegus
• mūrīnus
• mūricus
• murriō
• mūsarāneus
• mūscellārium
• mūscerda
• mūscipula
• mūsculus
• mūstēla

Related terms

• mūrex
• mūrilegulus
• mūscipulātor
• mūstricula

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • ⇒ Lombard: muson (“shrew”)
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: musèt (“shrew”); muson (“shrew, mole”)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: musèt (“shrew”)
• → Translingual: Mus

References

• “mus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “mus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Anagrams

• sum

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʊs]

Pronoun

mùs

1. first-person plural accusative of mes

Maltese

Root
m-w-s
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مُوسًى (mūsan). Compare Moroccan Arabic موس (mūs), Libyan Arabic موس (mūs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

Noun

mus m (plural mwies)

1. pocket knife, folding knife, jack-knife, switchblade

Derived terms

• mus tal-leħja

 

See also

• sikkina

 

Maonan

Noun

mus

1. pig

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mouche.

Noun

mus

1. fly

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Noun

mus

1. Alternative form of mous

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmuːs̠/

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (feminine, class 2 strong)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	diu	mūs	die	miuse
genitive	einer	dër	miuse, mūs	dër	miuse
dative	einer	dër	miuse, mūs	dën	miusen
accusative	eine	die	mūs	die	miuse

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Muus, Müss (Uri)
• Central Franconian: Muus, Mus (variant spelling), Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)
  • Hunsrik: Maus
  • Luxembourgish: Maus
• Cimbrian: maus
• German: Maus
• Vilamovian: maojs
• Yiddish: מויז (moyz)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “MÛS”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "mūs" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːs/

Pronoun

mūs

1. locative of mun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mús.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Noun

mus m or f (definite singular musen or musa, indefinite plural mus, definite plural musene)

1. mouse (rodent)

   Jeg håper det ikke er mus i huset.

   I hope there aren't any mice in the house.

2. mouse (computing)

   Venstreklikk med musa di.

   Left click with your mouse.

4. (colloquial, vulgar, anatomy) pussy (female genitalia)

   Mus er noe jenter har mellom beina.

   A pussy is something girls have between their legs.

Derived terms

• datamus
• museklikk
• spissmus
• bollemus

References

• “mus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

husmus (Mus musculus)

datamus

Etymology

From Old Norse mús (nominative and accusative plurals mýss), from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse, a coinage.

Germanic cognates include Icelandic mús, Faroese mús, Danish mus, Swedish mus, German Maus, German Low German Muus, Dutch muis, and English mouse. Indo-European cognates include Albanian mi, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Armenian մուկ (muk), Hindi मूस (mūs), Latin mūs, Persian موش, and Russian мышь (myšʹ).

(computing): Semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Noun

mus f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural myser or mus, definite plural mysene or musene)

2. (rodent) a mouse
4. (colloquial, vulgar, anatomy) pussy (female genitalia)
6. (computing) computer mouse

Usage notes

• This noun is often used in compounds as a first part to emphasize little size.

Synonyms

• ((vulgar) female genitalia): fitte, kuse, kunte, vulva
• (computer mouse): datamus, skjermpilot

Derived terms

• austmarkmus
• bjørkemus
• brannmus
• bymus
• datamus
• dvergmus
• fjellmarkmus
• fjellmus
• flaggermus
• gråsidemus
• gå ned mann og mus
• havmus
• husmus
• katt og mus
• klatremus
• klivemus
• leddmus
• lemus
• markmus
• moskusmus
• musande
• musearm
• museart
• musebit
• musebol
• musebrun
• musebøle
• musefamilie
• musefelle
• museflette
• musefoll
• musegrå
• musehòl
• museklikk
• museknapp
• musekule
• muselort
• musematte
• musepeikar
• musereir
• musert
• musesjuke
• museskritt
• musestille
• musesykje
• musete
• musunge
• musvåk
• musøyre
• når katter er vekke, dansar musene på bordet
• raudmus
• skapmus
• skogmus
• småskogmus
• snømus
• spissmus
• storskogmus
• ullmus
• vass-spissmus
• vassmus

 

See also

• lus f (“louse”) (for its morphological similarities)
• gnagar, rotte, vånd

References

• “mus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mus”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “mus” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Anagrams

• sum

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse
2. muscle

Declension

Strong consonant stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mȳs
accusative	mūs	mȳs
genitive	mȳs, mūse	mūsa
dative	mȳs	mūsum

Derived terms

• mūsfealle (“mousetrap”)

Descendants

• Middle English: mous, mouse, mowse, mows, mus, mowce, muse
  • English: mouse (see there for further descendants), moose (Northumbrian); muss
  • Scots: moose

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s.

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (feminine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mūsi
accusative	mūs	mūsi
genitive	mūsi	mūso
dative	mūsi	mūsim, mūsen

Descendants

• Middle High German: mūs
  • Alemannic German: Muus, Müss (Uri)
  • Central Franconian: Muus, Mus (variant spelling), Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)
    • Hunsrik: Maus
    • Luxembourgish: Maus
  • Cimbrian: maus
  • German: Maus
  • Vilamovian: maojs
  • Yiddish: מויז (moyz)

References

• "mūs" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	mūs	mūs
accusative	musi	musi
genitive	musi	musi
dative	mūsiō	mūsium
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: mûs
  • Low German: Muus
  • Plautdietsch: Mus

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

Noun

mūs f

1. mouse

Declension

Declension of mūs (consonant stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mūs	mūsin	mȳs	mȳssinar, -ena(r)
accusative	mūs	mūsina, -ena	mȳs	mȳssinar, -ena(r)
dative	mūs	mūsinni, -inne	mūsum, -om	mūsumin, -omen
genitive	mūsa(r)	inna(r)	mūsa	mūsanna

Descendants

• Swedish: mus

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Etymology 1

Deverbal from musieć.

Noun

mus m inan

1. (colloquial) constraint, coercion, must

   Synonym: przymus

Declension

Declension of mus

	singular
nominative	mus
genitive	musu
dative	musowi
accusative	mus
instrumental	musem
locative	musie
vocative	musie

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Mousse.

Noun

mus m inan

1. mousse (airy pudding served chilled)

Declension

Declension of mus

	singular	plural
nominative	mus	musy
genitive	musu	musów
dative	musowi	musom
accusative	mus	musy
instrumental	musem	musami
locative	musie	musach
vocative	musie	musy

Further reading

• mus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mus in PWN's encyclopedia
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “mus”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mousse.

Noun

mus m (plural muși)

1. cabin boy

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mus	musul		muși	mușii
genitive-dative	mus	musului		muși	mușilor
vocative	musule			mușilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Basque mus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/ [ˈmus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Noun

mus m (uncountable)

1. (card games) a card game that is very popular in Spain

Derived terms

• sin decir chus ni mus
• sin decir tus ni mus

 

Further reading

• “mus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English must.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

mus

1. (auxiliary) to have to, must

Swedish

en mus (husmus (“house mouse”))

Etymology

From Old Swedish mūs, from Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʉːs

Noun

mus c

1. mouse; small rodent of the genus Mus; especially species Mus musculus
2. (computing) a computer mouse; an input device
3. (colloquial) a pussy; female genitalia

Declension

Declension of mus 1, 2

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mus	mus
	definite	musen	musens
plural	indefinite	möss	möss
	definite	mössen	mössens

Declension of mus 3

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mus	mus
	definite	musen	musens
plural	indefinite	musar	musars
	definite	musarna	musarnas

Synonyms

• (small rodent): Mus musculus
• (input device): datormus

female genitalia

• fitta (vulgar, colloquial)
• kutta
• mutta
• skäggbiff
• slida
• snippa
• vagina

 

Related terms

animal

• hasselmus
• husmus
• musfälla
• musgrå
• muskel
• näbbmus
• tyst som en mus

computers

• datormus
• musarm
• musknapp
• musmatta
• muspekare

See also

• pekdon
• råtta
• sork

References

• mus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken

Unami

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Noun

mus anim (plural musàk)

1. elk, moose

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Venetan

Noun

mus

1. (Chipilo) donkey

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *n-mʉŋᴮ (“to go”), from Proto-Hmong-Mien *n-mʉŋ(X) (“id”). Cognate with Proto-Mien *n-mɨŋᴬ (“id”), whence Iu Mien mingh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu˩/

Verb

mus

1. to go

Interjection

mus

1. shoo!

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 132.