mice
意味
- mouseの複数形
例文
When the cat is not there, the mice are dancing.
猫がいない間に鼠は踊る。
He keeps some mice for the purpose of studying.
彼は研究の目的でねずみを数匹飼っている。
The field mice were eating up the farmers' grain.
野ねずみが農家の穀物を食べ尽くしていった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.