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Where does “mats” come from?

mats (Latvian) comes from Proto-Balto-Slavic mat-, from Proto-Indo-European mē- — to measure; endeavour, will, temper; many.

mats (Latvian): hair; each keratin filament on the body of human...

Definitions

  1. hair; each keratin filament on the body of human...

Ancestry of “mats”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Balto-Slavicmat-—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanmē-to measure; endeavour, will, temper; many

Words derived from “mats”

  • mata
  • rudmatis
  • matains
  • mati
  • tumšmatis
  • sirmmatis
  • gaišmatis
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