Where does “mice” come from?

Mice derives from Middle English mice, plural of mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-Germanic mūs, from Proto-Indo-European mūs-.

mice (English): plural of mouse

Definitions

  1. plural of mouse

Ancestry of “mice”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishmysplural of mous
2Old Englishmȳsmice
3Proto-Germanicmūsizmice
4Proto-Germanicmūsmouse
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmúh₂smouse

Words derived from “mice”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European múh₂s →Every word from Proto-Germanic mūs →Every word from Proto-Germanic mūsiz →
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