μῦς

• σμῦς (smûs)

From Proto-Hellenic *mū́s, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs (“mouse”). Cognates include Latin mūs, Sanskrit मूष् (mū́ṣ), Old Armenian մուկն (mukn) and Old English mūs (English mouse).^[1]

μῦς • (mûs) m (genitive μῠός); third declension

1. mouse
2. mussel
3. a type of whale
4. muscle

• Greek: μυς (mys)
• → Latin: mūsculus (“small mouse; muscle”) (semantic loan)
• →? Old Georgian: თაგუნი (taguni, “muscle”, literally “small mouse”) (semantic loan)

• “μῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mouse idem, page 544.
  • muscle idem, page 547.
  • shell idem, page 764.
• μῦς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011