Where does “mies” come from?
mies (Old Spanish) comes from Latin messem, from Hungarian -jem, from Hungarian -em, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
mies (Old Spanish): a harvest of grain
Ancestry of “mies”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | messem | accusative singular of messis |
| 2 | Hungarian | -jem | Used to form the first-person singular... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -em | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 4 | Hungarian | -én | — |
| 5 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 6 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |
Words derived from “mies”