mousse
English
/muːs/
noun
Definitions
- An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
- A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
- A styling cream used for hair.
- A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
Etymology
Borrowed from French mousse (froth, foam) derived from Old French mosse (moss) derived from Old Dutch mosa (moss) derived from Proto-Germanic *musą (moss, marsh, bog).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*musą
Gloss
moss, marsh, bog
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
沼
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mousselike English
- moussy English
- mousse Finnish
- *muttius Latin
- mos Dutch, Flemish
- antimousse French
- mousse French
- mousser French
- mousseux French
- moussu French
- мусс Russian
- mousse Spanish, Castilian
- mozo Spanish, Castilian
- *meus- Proto-Indo-European
- *mews- Proto-Indo-European
- *mus- Proto-Indo-European
- musse Portuguese
- *musą Proto-Germanic
- mosi Old Norse
- moisseron Old French
- moisserun Old French
- mosse Old French
- mios Old High German
- mos Old High German
- mousse Norman
- *mos gmw-pro
- mosa Old Dutch
- მუსი Georgian
- 慕斯 Chinese
- *mos Old Saxon
- *mosa Frankish
- *mos Old Frisian
- mos Old Frisian