Where does “māsc” come from?

māsc (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *maskā, from Proto-Germanic maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European mozgo-, from Proto-Indo-European mezgʷ- — to knit, tie, make a loop; to knit, tie; to knit,...

māsc (Old English): mash; mixture, mash

Definitions

  1. mash; mixture, mash

Ancestry of “māsc”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*maskāmesh, net
2Proto-Germanicmaskwǭloop, knot; mesh, netting; mesh used as a filter,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmozgo-netting, mesh, knot, loop
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmezgʷ-to knit, tie, make a loop; to knit, tie; to knit,...

Words derived from “māsc”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mezgʷ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European mozgo- →Every word from Proto-Germanic maskwǭ →
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