més-
French
prefix
Definitions
- mis- badly, wrongly
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mes- inherited from Old French mes- (mis-, wrongly, badly) derived from Frankish *missa- derived from Proto-Germanic *missa- (badly, wrongly, astay, mis-, amiss, divergent) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (small, change, little, strengthen, exchange, bind, fix, build fortifications fences, fence, attach, share, tie, soil, go past, fasten, wander).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mey-
Gloss
small, change, little, strengthen, exchange, bind, fix, build fortifications fences, fence, attach, share, tie, soil, go past, fasten, wander
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
小
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- minimal English
- minor English
- mis- English
- misappliance English
- *moerus Latin
- *ninnus Latin
- -tiō Latin
- Meduana Latin
- comminuō Latin
- commūnitātem Latin
- mania Latin
- meo Latin
- minimum Latin
- minister Latin
- minus Latin
- mūnerāre Latin
- mūnificentem Latin
- mūnificentia Latin
- mūnus Latin
- comunisteggiare Italian
- comunistizzare Italian
- nientedimeno Italian
- minimaal Dutch, Flemish
- minister Dutch, Flemish
- communisme French
- communiste French
- μίνυνθα Ancient Greek
- μίτος Ancient Greek
- μίτρα Ancient Greek
- μανός Ancient Greek
- μείων Ancient Greek
- μονόλιθος Ancient Greek
- *(e)mey- Proto-Indo-European
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey-, *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey-n-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *mi-nu Proto-Indo-European
- *misdʰós Proto-Indo-European
- *misdʰós, *misdʰéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *mitto Proto-Indo-European
- *moynis Proto-Indo-European
- *moynós Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱom-moy-ni- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European
- *maidaz Proto-Germanic
- *maidijaną Proto-Germanic
- *minnizô Proto-Germanic
- *missa- Proto-Germanic
- *missijaną Proto-Germanic
- *mēriją Proto-Germanic
- *mītǭ Proto-Germanic
- mis- Old English
- misbyrd Old English
- mis- Middle English
- mis- Old Norse
- *mimo Proto-Slavic
- *minovati Proto-Slavic
- *měna Proto-Slavic
- *mьnješ- Proto-Slavic
- *mьňьjь Proto-Slavic
- mis- Czech
- mes- Old French
- missa- Old High German
- mis- Ido
- mí- Old Irish
- mis- Middle High German
- mes- Middle French
- 𐌹𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰- Gothic
- mis- Old Dutch
- *menno- Proto-Celtic
- *mino- Proto-Celtic
- *missos Proto-Celtic
- *mitrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- mes- Occitan
- *moiros Proto-Italic
- *mis- Frankish
- *missa- Frankish
- *meila Proto-Albanian
- *mejHrós Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *mónwos Proto-Hellenic
- *moerus Old Latin
- *menke Proto-Tocharian