Where does “metatuff” come from?

metatuff (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,...

metatuff (English): metamorphosed tuff

Definitions

  1. metamorphosed tuff

Ancestry of “metatuff”, step by step

metatuff traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

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,...

via English tuff

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtuffA light porous rock, now especially a rock...
2Frenchtuftuff
3Italiantufotuff
4Latintōfustuff (kind of rock)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- →