Where does “mudstone” come from?
Mudstone is a compound of mud and stone, where mud derives from Middle Dutch modde, itself from Latin modus meaning measure or mode, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European roots related to standing and measuring.
mudstone (English): A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original...
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- A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original...
Ancestry of “mudstone”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | MUD | Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive... |
| 2 | Dutch | mud | An old measure of volume, varying in content over... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | mudde | — |
| 4 | Latin | modius | modius, a unit of dry measure of about a peck or... |
| 5 | Latin | modus | measure; bound, limit; manner , way , method |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | mēd- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | med- | to measure; to give advice; healing |
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