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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-? Proto-Indo-European *-dhe Proto-Indo-European *médhi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médhyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médhyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médhyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.

Clipping of mid-range.

From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of general use by the mid 1400s and survived into the modern English period only in sporadic use and the compounds midwife and theremid.

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: среден (sreden) — occupying a middle position; middle
• Dutch: midden — occupying a middle position; middle
• Dutch: middel — occupying a middle position; middle
• Finnish: keski- — occupying a middle position; middle
• French: mi- — occupying a middle position; middle
• Spanish: medio — occupying a middle position; middle
• Catalan: mitjà — in linguistics, made with a somewhat elevated position of some part of the tongue relative to the palate
• Dutch: te midden van — in linguistics, made with a somewhat elevated position of some part of the tongue relative to the palate
• Finnish: välinen — in linguistics, made with a somewhat elevated position of some part of the tongue relative to the palate
• German: mittel — in linguistics, made with a somewhat elevated position of some part of the tongue relative to the palate