Where does “mi” come from?

mi (Northern Kurdish) comes from Proto-Iranian mayšáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian mayšás, from Proto-Indo-European móysos — sheep, skin of sheep.

mi (Northern Kurdish): sheep

Definitions

  1. sheep

Ancestry of “mi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranianmayšáhsheep, ram
2Proto-Indo-Iranianmayšásram
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmóysossheep, skin of sheep

Words derived from “mi”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European móysos →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian mayšás →Every word from Proto-Iranian mayšáh →
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