Where does “metamessage” come from?

metamessage (English) comes from English message, from Old French message, from Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

metamessage (English): An inner message that could be inferred or...

Definitions

  1. An inner message that could be inferred or...

Ancestry of “metamessage”, step by step

metamessage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English message

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmessageA communication, or what is communicated; any...
2Old Frenchmessagemessage; messenger
3Latinmissāticummessage
4Latinmissussent, having been sent, caused to go, having been...
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via English meta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmetaSelf-referential; structured analogously, but at...
2Latinmētacone, pyramid
3Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
4Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
5Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus