musaraneus

Latin

From mūs (“mouse”) +‎ arāneus (“of a spider”).

mūsarāneus m (genitive mūsarāneī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: musaragno
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Middle French: mesiraigne, merisengne
  - French: musaraigne
- Walloon: miserette, mesirette (possibly)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: musaranya
- Occitan: musaranha, musranha
Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: musaranho
- Spanish: musaraña
  - → Tagalog: musaranya
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mureganeus
- Padanian:
  - Ladin: müsgagn ⇒ müsgòt, masugòt (“bat”); musgaign (“shrew”)
  - ⇒? Lombard: morjeu, morijeu (“mouse”)
    Bresciano: morgano (“rat”)
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - ⇒ Franco-Provençal: meurge
  - Gallo: migren
  - ⇒ Lorrain: meurjotte
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Occitan:
    ⇒ Gascon: mirga, murga, murgueta, mirgueta
    
    ⇒ Languedocien: mirga, murga, murgueta, mirgueta
    
    ⇒ Limousin: murja
    
    ⇒ Vivaro-Alpine: murga
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Galician: musgaño
  - Spanish: musgaño
Borrowings:
- → English: ranny

“mygale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
musaraneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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