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Where does “mies” come from?

mies (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish mies, from Latin messem, from Hungarian -jem, from Hungarian -em, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

mies (Spanish): cereal seed; seed, grain harvest time

Definitions

  1. cereal seed; seed, grain harvest time

Ancestry of “mies”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishmiesa harvest of grain
2Latinmessemaccusative singular of messis
3Hungarian-jemUsed to form the first-person singular...
4Hungarian-emUsed to form the first-person singular present...
5Hungarian-én—
6Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
7Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
8Proto-West Germanic-jā—
9Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
10Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
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