Where does “markmoot” come from?

markmoot (English) comes from English moot, from English mutual, from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus, from Latin muto, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

markmoot (English): A meeting of freemen who cultivated the land under the mark system

Definitions

  1. A meeting of freemen who cultivated the land under the mark system

Ancestry of “markmoot”, step by step

markmoot traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English moot

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmootSubject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve
2EnglishmutualHaving the same relationship, each to each other;...
3Middle Frenchmutuelmutual
4Latinmūtuusborrowed, lent
5LatinmutoI move, remove; I alter, change, modify,...
6Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
7Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
8Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
9Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via English Mark

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMarkAbbreviation of Markarian
2Germanmarkmark any of various European monetary units
3LatinMārcus
4LatinMartīnus
5Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
6Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
7Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
8Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós
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