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Where does “metaflexid” come from?

metaflexid (English) comes from English meta, from Latin mēta, from Proto-West Germanic mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną, from Proto-Germanic mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- — to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

metaflexid (English): A flexid in front of the metaconid

Definitions

  1. A flexid in front of the metaconid

Ancestry of “metaflexid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmetaSelf-referential; structured analogously, but at...
2Latinmēta—
3Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
4Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
5Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...
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