Saturday, November 21, 2009

Mouse, in my words

mus : mouse

The Illunse word for mouse is mus. Mus is a a traditional Basque card game. In Dutch mus means sparrow. In Danish mus means mouse. Mus is the name of cities in France, Germany, India, Iran and Turkey.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for mouse which is mús and the Latin word for mouse which is mus.

The Old English and Latin words are basically the same! This didn't give me much to work with. Instead of scrambling the letters (sum? smu? ums?), decided to go along with it and make mus the word for mouse in Illunse. Apparently mūs or mús is also the word for mouse in Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse.

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