Where does “Mus” come from?

Mus (Translingual) comes from Latin mūs, from Proto-Italic mūs, from Proto-Indo-European múh₂s — mouse.

Mus (Translingual): genus of mice

Definitions

  1. genus of mice

Ancestry of “Mus”, step by step

Mus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin mūs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmūsa mouse; a rat (the European black rat (Rattus rattus))
2Proto-Italicmūsmouse
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmúh₂smouse

via English Muscogee

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMuscogeeA member of an indigenous people of the southeastern United States, also called Creek, many of whom were relocated to Oklahoma in the 1830s
2CreekMvskoke—

Words derived from “Mus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European múh₂s →Every word from Proto-Italic mūs →Every word from Latin mūs →