mys

mys

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mesmes.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mesmes terms

From Proto-Albanian *mũtja, from Proto-Indo-European *meuɘ (“wet, dirty, to wash”).^[1]

mys m

1. clod (of earth), bread crust

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “mys”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “mys”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Russian мыс (mys).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪs]

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mys m inan

1. (geography) cape (headland)

• “mys”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mys”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mys”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• mijs, myis, myse, myys, myzs
• mees, myes (East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent); muys (Southern, West Midland)
• mis, myesse, mysz (Northern)

mys

1. plural of mous
   • c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:

     Wiþ þat ran þere a route · of ratones at ones / And smale mys with hem · mo þen a þousande

     With that a rout of rats ran at once, / and small mice with them; more than a thousand.

• English: mice (dialectal meece)
• Middle Scots: mise, myce
  • Scots: mice

• IPA^(key): /myːs/

mȳs

1. inflection of mūs:
   1. genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• Middle English: mys, mijs, myis, myse, myys, myzs, mees, myes (East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent), muys (Southern, West Midland), mis, myesse, mysz (Northern)
  • English: mice (dialectal meece)
  • Middle Scots: mise, myce
    • Scots: mice

• IPA^(key): /myːs/
• Rhymes: -yːs

Deverbal from mysa.

mys n

1. coziness

• gemyt
• trivsel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mys

1. imperative of mysa

• “mys”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “mys”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /mɨːs/
• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /miːs/

mys

1. nasal mutation of bys