Where does “mounde” come from?

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

mounde (Middle English): Earth planet

Definitions

  1. Earth planet

Ancestry of “mounde”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmondethe world; clean; pure
2Latinmundusclean, pure; neat; nice, fine, elegant,...
3Proto-Indo-EuropeanmewH-to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mewH- →Every word from Latin mundus →Every word from Old French monde →
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