mice

/maɪs/

mice

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American (Lessac) (medium)

Female 0.8s

American (Amy) (medium)

Female 0.8s

American (Ryan) (medium)

Male 0.3s

Definition

plural of mouse

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.