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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,...
2Latinmittō—
3Proto-Italicmeitō—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeyth₂-to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...

Words derived from “meti”

  • kunmeti
  • remeti
  • metu
  • almeti
  • elmeti
  • formeti
  • metis
  • enmeti
  • surmeti
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