Etymology

midrise

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Today it means: Neither high-rise nor low-rise; typically consisting of four to ten stories. Full definition →

English rise ← Middle English mid ← Old English midd
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The story

  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. Englishrise
  12. English todaymidrise

From mid- + rise.

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