Etymology

midden

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Today it means: A dung heap. Full definition →

Middle English midding ← Old Danish mykdyngja ← Old Norse myk
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frommyk
  2. Old Danish · derived frommykdyngja
  3. Middle English · inherited frommidding
  4. English todaymidden

From Middle English midding, myddyng, from Old Danish mykdyngja, (a compound of Old Norse myk, myki (“muck, manure”) and dyngja (“dung, dungpile”)), whence also Danish møgdynge and mødding, Norwegian mødding, dialectal Swedish mödding.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.