Word Origin Summary

*mū́s is attested in Proto-Hellenic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• miocard

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Hoplomys

  Translingual · derived from

• amiotrofia

  Polish · derived from

• myo-

  Czech · derived from

• mitulus

  Latin · borrowed from

• μυς

  Greek · inherited from

• Peromyscus

  Translingual · derived from

• Myocastor

  Translingual · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root