Where does “minuta” come from?

minuta (Lower Sorbian) comes from Old French minute, from Latin minuta, from Latin minūtus, from Proto-Italic minwō, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.

minuta (Lower Sorbian): minute

Definitions

  1. minute

Ancestry of “minuta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchminuteminute one sixtieth of an hour
2Latinminutanominative feminine singular of minūtus;...
3Latinminūtusdiminished, having been diminished
4Proto-Italicminwō—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mēy- →Every word from Proto-Italic minwō →Every word from Latin minūtus →