Proto-Indo-European

*múHs

‘mouse’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

24 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *múHs, most familiar first.

• muscle ← mūsculus ← mūs ← *mūs
• mouse ← mous ← mūs ← *mūs ← *mūs
• mice ← mys ← mȳs ← *mūsiz ← *mūs
• mussel ← muscle ← muscle ← *muskulā ← muscula
• murine ← mūrīnus ← mūs ← *mūs
• musculature ← musculus ← mūs ← *mūs
• myelin ← μυελός ← μυών ← μῦς ← *mū́s
• myocardium ← μῦς ← *mū́s
• mouser ← mousere ← mousen ← mous ← mūs
• musculus ← mūs ← *mūs
• myositis ← μῦς ← *mū́s
• murex ← mūs ← *mūs

More words from *múHs

• myelitis
• epimysial
• musophobia
• muricidal
• musculous
• muscule
• musculospiral
• muricoid
• musculin
• musion
• myomancy
• myelon

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *múHs