Where does “meat” come from?

meat (Latin) comes from Latin meo, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic meos — my.

meat (Latin): third-person singular present active indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present active indicative...

Ancestry of “meat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinmeoI go along, pass or traverse; dative masculine...
2Latinmeusmy, mine
3Proto-Italicmeosmy
Every word from Proto-Italic meosEvery word from Latin meusEvery word from Latin meo
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