Where does “metre” come from?
metre (Old Occitan) comes from Latin mittere, from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
Ancestry of “metre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | mittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |
Words derived from “metre”