Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *me
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
5. Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
6. Proto-Indo-European *-os
7. Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
8. Proto-Germanic *midjaz
9. Proto-West Germanic *midi
10. Old English midd
11. Middle English mid
12. English mid
13. Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
14. Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit. See: Dutch Nouns '
midden', German Nouns '
Mitte', Icelandic Nouns '
miður', Latin Nouns '
medius'.
Verbs referencing "mid"
German Nouns
Mitte.