Where does “menut” come from?

menut (Catalan) comes from Old Occitan menut, from Latin minūtus, from Proto-Italic minwō, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.

menut (Catalan): small; unimportant, trivial

Definitions

  1. small; unimportant, trivial

Ancestry of “menut”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanmenutsmall
2Latinminūtusdiminished, having been diminished
3Proto-Italicminwō—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear

Words derived from “menut”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mēy- →Every word from Proto-Italic minwō →Every word from Latin minūtus →