Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To tame; to break (a horse)
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryHumble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. · Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मु॒ञ्चति॑ (muñcáti, “to release, let loose”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmeekenm
- Derivation mentionmjúkrnon · soft; meek
- Derivation mention*meukazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*mewg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsmēagang · subtle, stealthy, etc.
- Cognate mentionmjuknn · soft
- Cognate mentionmyknb · soft
- Cognate mentionmygda · supple
- Cognate mentionmuiknl · soft, overripe
- Cognate mentionmauchde · dry and decayed, rotten
- Cognate mentionmwythcy · soft, weak
- Cognate mentionēmungōla · to blow one's nose
- Cognate mentionmuk-xto · to let go, give up
- Cognate mentionmùktilt · to slip away from
- Cognate mentionμύσσομαιgrc · to blow the nose
- Cognate mentionमु॒ञ्चति॑sa · to release, let loose
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