Where does “Mustela” come from?

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

Mustela (Translingual): genus

Definitions

  1. genus

Ancestry of “Mustela”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmūstēla—
2Latinmūsa mouse; a rat (the European black rat (Rattus rattus))
3Proto-Italicmūsmouse
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmúh₂smouse

Words derived from “Mustela”

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