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Where does “muzzle” come from?

Muzzle comes from Old French musel, from Latin musculus meaning "little mouse," from the diminutive suffix -culus and múh₂s meaning "mouse" in Proto-Indo-European.

muzzle (English): The protruding part of an animal's head which...

Definitions

  1. The protruding part of an animal's head which...

Ancestry of “muzzle”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishmosel—
2Old Frenchmusel—
3Latinmusus—

Words derived from “muzzle”

  • muzzleloader
  • muzzleloading
  • unmuzzle
  • muzzlelike
  • muzzler
  • muzzleless
  • greymuzzle
  • graymuzzle
  • muzzleth
  • muzzlest
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