musel
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Musel
Czech[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
musel
Fula[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
References[edit]
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French musel, diminutive of muse, from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”), of uncertain etymology but probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”).
Cognate to Italian muso, Old Spanish mus, Lombard mus and muson. Not related to French morceau nor to Spanish morro (“hill; muzzle”), Provençal mourre (“muzzle”), Occitan morre (“hill; muzzle”).
Noun[edit]
musel m (plural musels)
- muzzle (protruding part of many animal's head)
References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mūsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 275
Categories:
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Czech/usɛl
- Czech non-lemma forms
- Czech past active participles
- Fula terms borrowed from French
- Fula terms derived from French
- Fula lemmas
- Fula nouns
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Late Latin
- Middle French onomatopoeias
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns