Words that come from Proto-Indo-European múh₂s

400 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European múh₂s — including mouse, mice, muzzle, musk, cardiomyopathy, murine, myocardium, myosin.

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English (252)

Italian (38)

Latin (17)

Translingual (12)

Dutch (7)

French (7)

Ancient Greek (6)

Albanian (5)

Russian (5)

Slovene (5)

Sanskrit (4)

Swedish (4)

Armenian (4)

Icelandic (3)

Galician (3)

Greek (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Slovak (2)

Faroese (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Czech (2)

North Frisian (1)

Middle French (1)

Danish (1)

Proto-Italic (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Arabic (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Japanese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Polish (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Catalan (1)

Telugu (1)