Where does “muso” come from?

muso (Esperanto) comes from French mouche, from Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, from Latin musca, from Ancient Greek μυῖα, from Proto-Indo-European mūs- — fly, stinging fly, gnat; moist, damp; swamp,...

muso (Esperanto): mouse

Definitions

  1. mouse

Ancestry of “muso”, step by step

muso traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French mouche

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmouchefly; bullseye; a spy employed by the ancien...
2Middle Frenchmouschefly
3Old Frenchmousche—
4Latinmuscaa fly; an inquisitive or prying people
5Ancient Greekμυῖαa fly
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmūs-fly, stinging fly, gnat; moist, damp; swamp,...

via Proto-Indo-Iranian múHs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-IranianmúHsmouse
2Proto-Indo-Europeanmúh₂smouse

Words derived from “muso”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mūs- →Every word from Ancient Greek μυῖα →Every word from Latin musca →