Where does “mieltempo” come from?

mieltempo (Ido) comes from Ido mielo, 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.

mieltempo (Ido): honeymoon

Definitions

  1. honeymoon

Ancestry of “mieltempo”, step by step

mieltempo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ido mielo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Idomielohoney; sweetness
2Esperantomielohoney
3Frenchmielhoney
4Middle Frenchmielhoney sticky sweet substance
5Old Frenchmielhoney
6Vulgar Latin*melem
7Latinmelhoney; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanmélithoney

via Ido tempo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Idotempotime
2Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
4Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mélitEvery word from Latin melEvery word from Vulgar Latin *melem
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