Where does “mousy” come from?

Mousy comes from Middle English -y, Middle French -ie, Latin -ia, Latin -ivus, Latin -ia, Proto-Indo-European -kos, and Proto-Indo-European -kos, ultimately deriving from a suffix-stacking pattern in Indo-European morphology.

mousy (English): Resembling a mouse; Abounding or infested with...

Definitions

  1. Resembling a mouse; Abounding or infested with...

Ancestry of “mousy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMouseThe Walt Disney Company
2Germanmausmouse (animal)
3Middle High Germanmūsmouse
4Old High Germanmūsmouse
5Proto-West Germanicmūsmouse
6Proto-Germanicmūsmouse
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmúh₂smouse

Words derived from “mousy

Every word from Proto-Indo-European múh₂s