Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mūs

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

Noun

*mūs f^[1]

mouse

Inflection

Consonant stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mūs
Genitive	*mūsi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mūs	*mūsi
Accusative	*mūsu	*mūsi
Genitive	*mūsi	*mūsō
Dative	*mūsi	*mūsum
Instrumental	*mūsi	*mūsum

Descendants

Old English: mūs
- Middle English: mous, mouse, mowse, mows, mus, mowce, muse
  - English: mouse (see there for further descendants), moose (Northumbrian); muss
  - Scots: moose
Old Frisian: mūs
- North Frisian: müs
- Saterland Frisian: Múus
- West Frisian: mûs
Old Saxon: mūs
- Middle Low German: mûs
  - Low German: Muus
  - Plautdietsch: Mus
Old Dutch: *mūs
- Middle Dutch: muus
  - Dutch: muis
    - Afrikaans: muis
    - Jersey Dutch: mäus
    - Negerhollands: mischi, miśi, muśi
    - → Caribbean Hindustani: mus
    - → Sranan Tongo: moismoisi
  - Limburgish: moes
Old High German: mūs
- 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

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*mūs”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*mūs”

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