Words that come from Proto-Germanic “miz”

87 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Germanic miz — including me, methinks, mee, meself, meseemeth, tiramisu, methinketh, readme.

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English (13)

Bislama (11)

Italian (5)

Tok Pisin (4)

Esperanto (3)

Haitian Creole (3)

Pijin (3)

Old Saxon (3)

Mauritian Creole (3)

Middle Low German (2)

Old Frisian (2)

French (2)

Japanese (2)

Middle English (2)

Old English (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Dutch (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Nigerian Pidgin (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Middle High German (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Polish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Korean (1)

Russian (1)

Chinese (1)

Low German (1)

West Frisian (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Spanish (1)

Finnish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Ido (1)

Alemannic German (1)

German (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Jamaican Creole (1)

Old High German (1)