Etymology

midmost

mid·most
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Old English medemest ← Proto-Germanic *medumô
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*medumô
  2. Old English · inherited frommedemest
  3. English todaymidmost

From Old English medemest, superlative of medeme (“middling”), from Proto-Germanic *medumô; the word may be analysed as mid + -most.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.