different between lemming vs mice

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l?m.??/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Noun

lemming (plural lemmings)

1. A small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents.
2. (figuratively) Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.

Derived terms

• bog lemmings, Synaptomys spp.
• collared lemmings, Dicrostonyx spp.
• steppe lemming, Lagurus lagurus
• true lemmings, Lemmus spp.
• wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor
• yellow steppe lemmings, Eolagurus spp.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Pronunciation

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmingen or lemmings, diminutive lemminkje n)

1. lemming (rodent)

Anagrams

• glimmen

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

French

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.mi?/

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmings)

1. lemming

Further reading

• “lemming” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmings)

1. Alternative form of lémingue

Spanish

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmings)

1. lemming (rodent)

English

Etymology

From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English m?s (“mice”), cheshirization from Proto-Germanic *m?siz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *m?s (“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: m?s, IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

mice

1. plural of mouse

Anagrams

• ICEM, ICME, cemi, emic

Latvian

Noun

mice f (5th declension)

1. (colloquial) hat
2. (colloquial) cap
3. (colloquial) tucker

Declension

Synonyms

• aube

See also

• cepure f
• platmale f