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Etymology

The word dormouse comes from Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal element *dor-, from Old Norse dár and Middle English mous .

The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir , with the second element mistaken for mouse, but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.

The Latin noun

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