Where does “meti” come from?

meti (Esperanto) comes from Italian mettere, from Latin mittō, from Proto-Italic meitō, from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...

meti (Esperanto): to put, place

Definitions

  1. to put, place

Ancestry of “meti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmettereto put, place, lay, set; to deposit; to bet,...
2Latinmittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge
3Proto-Italicmeitōto put forth, put out
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeyth₂-to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...

Words derived from “meti”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- →Every word from Proto-Italic meitō →Every word from Latin mittō →
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