Re: Latin mu:stela (what do you think?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> From the http://ehl.santafe.edu/intro1.htm
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> Proto-IE: *mūs-tel-
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> Nostratic etymology:
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> Meaning: weasel
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> Other Iranian: Osset mystuläg `weasel'
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> Slavic: *mɨ̄stlь (mi>stlI), *mɨ̄stlъ

вост.-слав.
ЭССЯ 21:52

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> Latin: mūstēla (˜ -u-) f. `Wiesel'

Isn't this usually reconstructed as mouse?