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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mŷːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mis/
Noun
μῦς • (mûs) m (genitive μῠός); third declension
Inflection
| 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 tōî 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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
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.