muset

English

Etymology

From Middle French mussette, from Old French mussette, diminutive of musse, muce (“a hiding place”).

Noun

muset (plural musets)

1. (obsolete) A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC, lines 679-684:

     And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,
     Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles
     How he outruns the wind and with what care
     He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
     The many musets through the which he goes
     Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “muset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• muste, mutes, sumet, u-stem

Czech

Alternative forms

• musit

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech musiti, musěti, borrowed from Old High German muozan (German müssen). Cognate with Polish musieć, Ukrainian мусити (musyty).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmusɛt]

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Verb

muset impf

1. must, to have to

Conjugation

Conjugation

Infinitive	muset, museti	Active adjective	musející
Verbal noun	—	Passive adjective	—

Present forms	indicative		imperative
	singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person	musím	musíme	—	—
2nd person	musíš	musíte	—	—
3rd person	musí	musejí, musí	—	—

The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive muset.

Participles	Past participles		Passive participles
	singular	plural	singular	plural
masculine animate	musel	museli	—	—
masculine inanimate		musely		—
feminine	musela		—
neuter	muselo	musela	—	—

Transgressives	present	past
masculine singular	museje	—
feminine + neuter singular	musejíc	—
plural	musejíce	—

See also

• moci
• smět
• mít

Further reading

• museti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• museti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• muset in Internetová jazyková příručka

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

muset (indefinite singular muset, definite singular and plural musete)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of musete