mous
Middle English
/muːs/
noun
Definitions
- mouse or shrew small rodent
- (figurative) A coward; one lacking courage.
- (figurative) A feeble or unimportant individual.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English mūs (mouse) inherited from *mūs inherited from Proto-Germanic *mūs (mouse) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s (mouse, muscle).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*múh₂s
Gloss
mouse, muscle
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鼠
Emoji
🐁 🐭 🖱️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antimouse English
- churchmouse English
- creepmouse English
- demouse English
- flindermouse English
- flittermouse English
- micromouse English
- mouse English
- mouse-ear English
- mouseable English
- mousebird English
- mouseclick English
- mousedom English
- mousefall English
- mousefish English
- mousefucker English
- mousehole English
- mousehood English
- mousekin English
- mousekind English
- mouseless English
- mouselike English
- mouseling English
- mouselook English
- mouseness English
- mouseover English
- mousepad English
- mousepox English
- mouseprint English
- mouseproof English
- mouser English
- mousery English
- mousesicle English
- mousetail English
- mousetrap English
- mousework English
- mousie English
- mousy English
- nonmouse English
- oncomouse English
- premouse English
- reremouse English
- seamouse English
- shrewmouse English
- supermouse English
- water mouse English
- woodmouse English
- Maus German
- Mouse German
- mouse Italian
- mouse Spanish, Castilian
- μῦς Ancient Greek
- *muh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- *múh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- *mūs- Proto-Indo-European
- mouse Portuguese
- *fifaldǭ Proto-Germanic
- *mūs Proto-Germanic
- *mūsiz Proto-Germanic
- hrēremūs Old English
- mus Old English
- musfealle Old English
- mushafoc Old English
- mūs Old English
- मूष् Sanskrit
- ere Middle English
- mousepese Middle English
- mousere Middle English
- mowsyn Middle English
- muse Middle English
- pese Middle English
- reremous Middle English
- reren Middle English
- mús Old Norse
- muso Esperanto
- maus Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mouse Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- เมาส์ Thai
- mūs Old High German
- mushkëri Albanian
- *mūs gmw-pro
- *mūs Old Dutch
- მაუსი Georgian
- mouse Chinese
- *múHs Proto-Indo-Iranian
- mus Old Saxon
- mūs Old Saxon
- mausi Swahili
- 마우스 Korean
- *mūs Proto-Italic
- moose Scots
- মাউস Bengali
- mūs Old Frisian
- ମାଉସ Oriya