Where does “mielo” come from?

mielo (Ido) comes from Esperanto mielo, from French miel, from Middle French miel, from Old French miel, from Vulgar Latin *melem, from Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European mélit — honey.

mielo (Ido): honey; sweetness

Definitions

  1. honey; sweetness

Ancestry of “mielo”, step by step

mielo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Esperanto mielo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantomielohoney
2Frenchmielhoney
3Middle Frenchmielhoney sticky sweet substance
4Old Frenchmielhoney
5Vulgar Latin*melem—
6Latinmelhoney; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmélithoney

via Spanish miel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishmielhoney
2Old Spanishmielhoney

Words derived from “mielo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mélit →Every word from Latin mel →Every word from Vulgar Latin *melem →