Proto-Indo-European

*me

‘near, by, with’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *me.

38 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *me, most familiar first.

• mean ← meene ← moien ← mediānus ← medius
• media ← *meðjos ← *médʰyos
• mid ← midd ← *midją ← *médʰyos
• medium ← medius ← *meðjos ← *médʰyos
• medal ← medaille ← medaglia ← medālia ← mediālis
• median ← mediānus ← medius ← *meðios ← *médʰyos
• midst ← middes ← midde ← *midjǭ ← *midjaz
• mediation ← mediacion ← mediacion ← mediātiō ← mediārī
• mediator ← mediatour ← mediateur ← mediātum ← mediō
• mediate ← mediat(e) ← mediātus ← mediō ← medius
• mezzanine ← mezzanino ← mezzano ← mediānus ← medius
• maidan ← میدان ← مَيْدَان ← *madyānah ← *mádyah

More words from *me

• moiety
• medulla
• medio
• moyen
• intermezzo
• mesic
• medius
• mediastinum
• mesial
• mistle
• intermezzi
• imell
• intermediae
• intermedious
• intermedial
• medianoche
• mezzobrow
• mediety
• medicommissure
• mesole
• metayer
• metayage
• mesology
• mesoscaphe
• midmost
• midward

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *me