Where does “mode” come from?

mode (Middle French) comes from Old French mode, from Latin modus, from Proto-Indo-European mēd-, from Proto-Indo-European med- — to measure; to give advice; healing.

Ancestry of “mode”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmode
2Latinmodusmeasure
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmēd-to measure
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmed-to measure; to give advice; healing

Words derived from “mode

Every word from Proto-Indo-European med-
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