hiiri

Finnish

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Definitions
  • A mouse, used rather indiscriminately for a number of small mouse-resembling rodents mostly in the zoologic family Muridae, but also in Zapodidae and Gliridae.
  • (computing) A computer mouse.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *hiiri inherited from Proto-Uralic *šiŋere.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*šiŋere

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