Where does “merit” come from?
merit (Romanian) comes from French mérite, from Latin meritum, from Latin meritus, from Latin mereō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)mer- — to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...
merit (Romanian): merit
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Ancestry of “merit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | mérite | merit; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 2 | Latin | meritum | merit, service, deserts; value, reward, benefit,... |
| 3 | Latin | meritus | earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,... |
| 4 | Latin | mereō | to deserve, merit |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mer- | to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to... |