Etymology

mid-air

Today it means: The middle of the air, as while in flight. Full definition →

English air ← Middle English aire ← Old French air
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Latināēr
  12. Old Frenchair
  13. Middle Englishaire
  14. Englishair
  15. English todaymid-air

From mid- + air.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.