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Where does “mid-mashie” come from?

mid-mashie (English) comes from English mashie, from French massue, from Old French massüe, from Old French maçugue, from Vulgar Latin matteuca, from Vulgar Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

mid-mashie (English): A metal-headed golf club, the equivalent of a...

Definitions

  1. A metal-headed golf club, the equivalent of a...

Ancestry of “mid-mashie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmashieA metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft,...
2Frenchmassueclub
3Old Frenchmassüe—
4Old Frenchmaçugue—
5Vulgar Latinmatteuca—
6Vulgar Latinmattia—
7LatinmateolaThe meaning of this term is uncertain....
8Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
9Proto-Italic-olos—
10Proto-Italic-elos—
11Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
12Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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