mouse

• n. ネズミ；臆病で内気な人
• vt.探る
• vi. ネズミを捕まえる；スパイする

PIE*mus「ネズミ」から。語源的にはmuscle「筋肉」、mussel「イガイ」と同じ。

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 ".

名詞 mouse はmikeの単数形である.

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

マウスで画像をドラッグし、新しいサイズに調整します。

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

彼から見れば、これは猫がネズミを捕まえるトリックで、私はネズミです。

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

マウスを軽くすると、電子メールが表示されます。

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

なんだか、物事全体が少し幼稚です。