Where does “maonde” come from?
maonde (Norman) comes from Old French monde, from Latin mundus, from Proto-Indo-European mewH- — to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet.
maonde (Norman): world
Ancestry of “maonde”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | monde | the world; clean; pure |
| 2 | Latin | mundus | clean, pure; neat; nice, fine, elegant,... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | mewH- | to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet |