Where does “miosúr” come from?

miosúr (Irish) comes from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra, from Latin mētior, from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- — to measure.

miosúr (Irish): measure; tape measure, measuring tape

Definitions

  1. measure; tape measure, measuring tape

Ancestry of “miosúr”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmesure—
2Latinmēnsūrameasure; a measuring
3Latinmētiorto measure or estimate
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₁-to measure
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- →Every word from Latin mētior →Every word from Latin mēnsūra →
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