Etymology

metacurrency

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Today it means: A type of resource allotted to players that is spent and exchanged without any resource exchanging occurring in the game world. Full definition →

English currency ← Medieval Latin currentia ← Latin currēns
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meth₂?
  3. Ancient Greekμετᾰ́ (metắ)
  4. Ancient Greekμετᾰ- (metă-)
  5. Englishmeta-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥séti
  8. Proto-Italic*korsō
  9. Latincurrō
  10. Latincurrēns
  11. Medieval Latincurrentia
  12. Englishcurrency
  13. English todaymetacurrency

From meta- + currency.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.