Where does “mīti kau” come from?
mīti kau (Maori) comes from Maori mīti, from English meat, from Middle English mete, from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną — to bake, to roast, to fry.
Ancestry of “mīti kau”, step by step
mīti kau traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Maori mīti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maori | mīti | — |
| 2 | English | meat | The flesh of an animal used as food; A type of... |
| 3 | Middle English | mete | Food, nourishment or comestibles; that which is... |
| 4 | Middle English | bake mete | Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry... |
| 5 | Middle English | baken | To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of... |
| 6 | Old English | bacan | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | bakan | to bake |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |