Where does “medulla” come from?

Medulla comes from Latin medulla, derived from Latin medius, which traces to Proto-Indo-European médʰyos meaning middle.

medulla (English): The soft inner part of something, especially the...

Definitions

  1. The soft inner part of something, especially the...

Ancestry of “medulla”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmedullamarrow; vocative singular of medulla; ablative...
2Latinmediusmiddle; half; moderate
3Latinlocusplace, spot; a passage of literature; "in the...
4Old Latinstlocus
5Proto-Italicstlokos
6Proto-Indo-Europeanstel-to put, to place; to locate

Words derived from “medulla

Every word from Proto-Indo-European stel-