miš

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mis"

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîʃ/

Noun

mȉš m anim or m inan (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 [...]

Declension

Declension of miš – animate (animal)

	singular	plural
nominative	mȉš	mȉševi
genitive	mȉša	mȉšēvā
dative	mȉšu	mȉševima
accusative	mȉša	mȉševe
vocative	mȉšu	mȉševi
locative	mȉšu	mȉševima
instrumental	mȉšem	mȉševima

Declension of miš – inanimate (computer device)

	singular	plural
nominative	mȉš	mȉševi
genitive	mȉša	mȉšēvā
dative	mȉšu	mȉševima
accusative	mȉš	mȉševe
vocative	mȉšu	mȉševi
locative	mȉšu	mȉševima
instrumental	mȉšem	mȉševima

Archaic accent in plural (Vuk 1852)

	plural
nominative	mìševi
genitive	mìšēvā
dative	mìševima
accusative	mìševe
vocative	mìševi
locative	mìševima
instrumental	mìševima

Short plural form (rare, archaic)

	plural
nominative	mȉši
genitive	mȋšā
dative	mȉšima
accusative	mȉše
vocative	mȉši
locative	mȉšima
instrumental	mȉšima

Derived terms

• mišica
• Mišić (last name)
• mišji
• mišolik
• mišolovka
• mišomor
• Mišur (last name)
• Mišura (last name)
• Mišurac (last name)

References

• 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), 2006–2026

Slovene

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /míʃ/

Noun

mȉš f

1. mouse (rodent of the genus Mus)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “miš”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

miš

1. where, in what place (interrogative)

Synonyms

• kus

References

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