Etymology

milden

M3I1L1D2E1N1

Today it means: To make or become mild or milder. Full definition →

English mild ← Middle English milde ← Old English milde
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*melh₂-
  2. Proto-Germanic*mildijaz
  3. Old Englishmilde
  4. Middle Englishmilde
  5. Englishmild
  6. English todaymilden

From mild + -en.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.