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Where does “meda” come from?

meda (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese meda, from Latin meta, from Proto-Italic mētā, from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- — to measure.

meda (Galician): conical haystack, of thatch or of not threshed...

Definitions

  1. conical haystack, of thatch or of not threshed...

Ancestry of “meda”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesemeda—
2Latinmetacone, pyramid; turning point, winning post;...
3Proto-Italicmētā—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₁-to measure
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