Word Origin Summary

*meth₂ is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• a poeng med

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• med

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• метаморфизм

  Kazakh · derived from

• Metatheria

  Translingual · derived from

• à poeng med

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• មិថុនា

  Central Khmer · derived from

• meta-

  Spanish · borrowed from

• metachronism

  English · derived from

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