| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | m s- |
| DEFINITION: | A mouse; also a muscle (from the resemblance of a flexing muscle to the movements of a mouse). 1. mouse, from Old English ms (plural m s), mouse, from Germanic *ms- (plural *msiz). 2. murine, muscle, mussel, musteline, from Latin ms, mouse. 3. myelo-, myo-; epimysium, myosotis, mysticete, perimysium, syringomyelia, from Greek ms, mouse, muscle. 4. Perhaps suffixed reduced form *mus-ko-. Muscadet, muscat, muscatel, musk, must5; nutmeg, from Sanskrit mu ka , testicle, scrotum (? < “little mouse”). (Pokorny ms 752.) |
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