Where does “mile” come from?

Mile comes from Middle English mile, from Latin milium, from Latin mille meaning "thousand," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mey-.

mile (English): The international mile: a unit of length...

Definitions

  1. The international mile: a unit of length...

Ancestry of “mile”, step by step

mile traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English myle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishmylemile; The time it takes to walk a mile;...
2Old Englishmīlmillet; mile
3Latinmīlia
4Proto-West Germanicmīlijumile
5LatinMīllethousand; 1000
6Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
7Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂

via Macedonian Ми́ле

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MacedonianМи́ле

Words derived from “mile

Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂