mice

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse. === Pronunciation === enPR: mīs, IPA(key): /maɪs/ Rhymes: -aɪs === Noun === mice plural of mouse ==== Derived terms ==== === Verb === mice (third-person singular simple present mices, present participle micing, simple past and past participle miced) (Bermuda, chiefly in the form micin) To be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse). === References === “mice”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. === Anagrams === ICEM, ICME, cemi, emic == Latvian == === Noun === mice f (5th declension) (colloquial) hat (colloquial) cap (colloquial) tucker ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== aube ==== See also ==== cepure f platmale f