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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *mūs</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_mūs</idno>
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      <sourceDesc>
        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_sla-x-proto_mys" xml:lang="sla-x-proto" type="cognate">
          <orth>*myšь</orth>
          <def>mouse</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_mus" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mūs">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>mūs</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈmuːs</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛗᚢᛊ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">consonant stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>mouse</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.</seg>
            <seg type="p"> Cognates include Proto-Slavic <mentioned xml:lang="sla-x-proto" target="#cog_sla-x-proto_mys"><ref target="#cog_sla-x-proto_mys">*myšь</ref></mentioned> (‘mouse’). </seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>mūs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>mūsiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>mūsų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>mūsunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>mūsiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>mūsǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>mūsi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>mūsumaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>mūsē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>mūsumiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>mūs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>mūsiz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>muus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>moes</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>muus</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>muis</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>muis</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Caribbean Hindustani</lang>
                          <orth>mus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>mäus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>mischi, miśi, muśi</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Sranan Tongo</lang>
                          <orth>moismoisi</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>mous, mouse, mowse, mows, mus, mowce, muse</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>mouse, moose, muss</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>moose</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>müs</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Múus</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>mûs</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>mūs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Muus, Müss</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Cimbrian</lang>
                        <orth>maus</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Maus</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Vilamovian</lang>
                        <orth>maojs</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>מויז (moyz)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>mūs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>Muus, Mus, Maus, Mous</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Hunsrik</lang>
                          <orth>Maus</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                          <orth>Maus</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*mūs</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>mûs</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Muus</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Mus</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>mús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Elfdalian</lang>
                    <orth>maus</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>mús</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>mäus</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>mús</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>mus</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>mús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                    <orth>?</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>mus</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                      <orth>mus</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>mús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>mus</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>mús</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>mūs</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>mus</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
        </entry>
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