Where does “mappemounde” come from?

mappemounde (Middle English) comes from Old French mapamonde, from Latin mundus, from Proto-Indo-European mewH- — to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet.

Ancestry of “mappemounde”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Old French	mapamonde	world map
2	Latin	mundus	clean, pure; neat; nice, fine, elegant,...
3	Proto-Indo-European	mewH-	to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet

Words derived from “mappemounde”

map
mapping
bitmap
mapper
mapmaking
mapmaker
remap
mappable
multimap
unmappable
colormap
treemap
ecomap
portmapper
maplike
lovemap
mapless
submap
unmap
minimap
keymap
countermapping
automapping
mapreading

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mewH- →

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