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 mélitEvery word from Latin melEvery word from Vulgar Latin *melem
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