miš

miš

1. I (1st-person singular pronoun)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *myšь (changed from feminine into masculine gender and declension), from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. The meaning computer input device is a calque of English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /mîʃ/

mȉš m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling ми̏ш, diminutive mȉšić)

1. (animate) mouse (animal)
   • 1696, Paval Vitezovich, Kronika, aliti szpomen vszega svieta vikov‎^[1], page 173:

     [...] dàſu konye, pſe, macske, misse, missine, opanke i Zemĺu od glada i shedye jili, à nehtilli Turkom grada datti.

     [...] da su konje, pse, mačke, miše, mišine, opanke i zemlju od glada i žeđe jili, a ne htili Turkom grada dati.

     [...] so that they ate horses, dogs, cats, mice, rats[?], shoes and dirt out of hunger and thirst, and they would not give the city over to the Turks.

2. (inanimate) mouse (computer input device)
   • 2004 March 4, Domagoj Cerovac, “Računala — Bluetooth svuda oko nas”, in Vijenac‎^[2]:

     Paket uključuje tipkovnicu, miš i mediapad.

     The package includes a keyboard, mouse and mediapad.

   • 2020 November 30, Mario Baksa, “Uključivanje računala na pomak miša ili pritiska tipke na tipkovnici?”, in Bug.hr‎^[3]:

     Time ste BIOS-u rekli da ne obraća pozornost na tipkovnicu i miša [...]

     That way you told BIOS not to pay attention to the keyboard and mouse [...]

3. small boy

animate (animal)

inanimate (computer device)

• Вук Стеф. Караџић (1852) Српски рјечник истумачен њемачкијем и латинскијем ријечима, 2nd edition, Беч, page 360
• Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904–1910), “miš”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[4] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 767
• “miš”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *myšь, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /míʃ/

mȉš f

1. mouse (rodent of the genus Mus)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “miš”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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miš

1. where, in what place (interrogative)

• kus

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “где”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[5], Petrozavodsk: Periodika