Muus

See also: muus, Müüs, and Múus

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Müss (Uri)

Etymology

From Old High German mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs. Cognate with German Maus, Dutch muis, English mouse, Icelandic mús.

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /muːs/

Noun

Muus f (plural Müüs, diminutive Müüsli)

1. mouse

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• Mus (variant spelling)
• Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German mūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

Noun

Muus f (plural Müüs, diminutive Müüsje)

1. (Ripuarian) mouse

   Ich jlööve, mer hann en Muus em Huus.

   I think we have a mouse in the house.

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Maus
• Luxembourgish: Maus

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German mos, from Old High German mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

Noun

Muus n

1. (Erzgebirgisch) moss

Further reading

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• Mous (Aubel)
• moues (Genk)
• meus (Griendtsveen)
• maus (Tongeren)
• moos (Val-Meer)
• moeës (various dialects)
• moes (widespread variant, Dutch-based spelling)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/
• (Eupen, uncommon) IPA^(key): [muːə̯s]
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

Muus f (plural Müüs, diminutive Müsske or Müüske)

1. (Eupen, Krefeld) mouse (animal)
2. (same dialects) mouse (computer input device)

Low German

Alternative forms

• Mus

Etymology

From Middle Low German mûs, from Old Saxon mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Noun

Muus f (plural Müüs) (German Low German)

1. mouse, Mus musculus
2. mouse (computing)

Derived terms

• Computermuus
• Huusmuus
• Reeknermuus

See also

• Deert
• Gnaagdeert
• gnagen
• gnogen
• Katt
• Muschi
• Puus
• Rott
• säugen
• Säugdeert
• sögen
• Söögdeert

References

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)