Etymology

misname

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Today it means: A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer. Full definition →

English name ← Middle English name ← Old English nama
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*missaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*missa-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*missa-
  6. Old Englishmis-
  7. Middle Englishmys-
  8. Englishmis-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
  10. Proto-Germanic*namô
  11. Proto-West Germanic*namō
  12. Old Englishnama
  13. Middle Englishname
  14. Englishname
  15. English todaymisname

From mis- + name.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.