Word Origin Summary

*mē is attested in Proto-Dravidian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• മേൽഭാഗത്ത്

  Malayalam · inherited from

• ಮೇಲೆ

  Kannada · inherited from

• മേലെ

  Malayalam · inherited from

• മേൽ

  Malayalam · inherited from

• 𒈨𒈛𒄩𒆠

  Sumerian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root