mouse

来自PIE*mus,老鼠，词源同muscle,mussel.引申词义鼠标。

mouse

mouse: [OE] Mouse is an ancient word, with relatives today in all the Germanic and Slavic languages. Its Indo-European ancestor was *mūs-, which produced Greek mūs, Latin mūs (something of a dead end: the modern Romance languages have abandoned it), Sanskrit mūs (source, via a very circuitous route, of English musk), and prehistoric Germanic *mūs-.

This has evolved into German maus, Dutch muis, Swedish and Danish mus, and English mouse. And the Slavic branch of the ‘mouse’-family includes Russian mysh’, Polish mysz, and Serbo- Croat mish. English relatives of mouse include muscle and mussel (ultimately the same word) and marmot [17], which goes back to a Vulgar Latin accusative form *mūrem montis ‘mouse of the mountain’.
=> marmot, muscle, musk, mussel

mouse (n.)

Old English mus "small rodent," also "muscle of the arm," from Proto-Germanic *mus (cognates: Old Norse, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Danish, Swedish mus, Dutch muis, German Maus "mouse"), from PIE *mus- (cognates: Sanskrit mus "mouse, rat," Old Persian mush "mouse," Old Church Slavonic mysu, Latin mus, Lithuanian muse "mouse," Greek mys "mouse, muscle").

Plural form mice (Old English mys) shows effects of i-mutation. Contrasted with man (n.) from 1620s. Meaning "black eye" (or other discolored lump) is from 1842. Computer sense is from 1965, though applied to other things resembling a mouse in shape since 1750, mainly nautical.

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus [Horace]

mouse (v.)

"to hunt mice," mid-13c., from mouse (n.). Related: Moused; mousing.

1. The noun " mouse " is the singular form of " mice " .

名词mouse是 mice 的单数形式.

2. Use your mouse to drag the pictures to their new size.

用鼠标拖动图片，将其调整为新的尺寸。

3. It's a cat-and-mouse game to him, and I'm the mouse.

在他看来，这是个猫捉老鼠的把戏，而我就是老鼠。

4. You can check your email with a click of your mouse.

鼠标轻轻一点，即可查看电子邮件。

5. The whole thing is somehow a bit Mickey Mouse.

不知怎的，整件事情有点幼稚。