meager

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*mh₂ḱrós
2. Latin · derived frommacer
3. Old French · derived frommaigre
4. Anglo-Norman · derived frommegre
5. Middle English · inherited frommegre
6. English todaymeager

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Old Norse magr whence the Icelandic magur, Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.

Words from the same roots