μῦς

See also: μυς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μῡών (mūṓn)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mū́s, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s. Cognates include Latin mūs, Sanskrit मूष् (mū́ṣ), Old Armenian մուկն (mukn) and Old English mūs (English mouse).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mŷːs/ → /mys/ → /mis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mŷːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mis/

Noun

μῦς • (mûs) m (genitive μῠός); third declension

1. mouse
2. A type of mussel
3. A type of whale
4. muscle

Inflection

Irregular declension of ὁ μῦς; τοῦ μῠός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῦς ho mûs	τὼ μῠ́ε tṑ múe	οἱ μῠ́ες hoi múes
Genitive	τοῦ μῠός toû muós	τοῖν μῠοῖν toîn muoîn	τῶν μῠῶν tôn muôn
Dative	τῷ μῠῐ̈́ tôi muḯ	τοῖν μῠοῖν toîn muoîn	τοῖς μῡσῐ́ / μῡσῐ́ν / μῠσῐ́ / μῠσῐ́ν toîs mūsí(n) / musí(n)
Accusative	τὸν μῦν tòn mûn	τὼ μῠ́ε tṑ múe	τοὺς μῦς toùs mûs
Vocative	μῦ mû	μῠ́ε múe	μῠ́ες múes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μυοσωτίς (muosōtís)
• μῡγᾰλέη (mūgaléē)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μυς (mys)

References

• “μῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mouse idem, page 544.
  • muscle idem, page 547.
  • shell idem, page 764.