Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/musą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Alternative forms

*musô (North Germanic)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mews-. Cognates include Latin muscus, Proto-Slavic *mъxъ. See there for more cognates.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmu.sɑ̃/

Noun

*musą n

moss, bog

Inflection

Declension of *musą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*musą	*musō
vocative	*musą	*musō
accusative	*musą	*musō
genitive	musas, musis	*musǫ̂
dative	*musai	*musamaz
instrumental	*musō	*musamiz

Related terms

*meusą

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *mos
- Old English: mos
  - Middle English: mos, mosse
    - Scots: mos
    - English: moss
- Old Frisian: *mos
  - Saterland Frisian: Moas
  - West Frisian: moas
- Old Saxon: mos
  - Middle Low German: mos
    - German Low German: Moss
- Old Dutch: *mos
  - Middle Dutch: mos
    - Dutch: mos
  - → Old French: mosse, mousseron (< *mosu)
    - French: mousse, mousseron
      - → English: mousse, mushroom
- Old High German: mos
  - Middle High German: mos
    - German: Moos
    - Hunsrik: Moos
    - Luxembourgish: Moos
Old Norse: *mos; mosi m (< *musô)
- Icelandic: mosi
- Faroese: mosi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mose; (dialectal) mosi, mosa
- Old Swedish: mosi m, mosa (oblique cases); mos n
  - Swedish: mosse, mossa
- Danish: mose
  - Norwegian Bokmål: mose