Etymology

mixen

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Today it means: A compost heap or dunghill. Full definition →

Middle English myxen ← Old English mixen ← Proto-West Germanic *mīgan
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*mīganą“to urinate”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*mīgan
  3. Old English · inherited frommixen
  4. Middle English · inherited frommyxen
  5. English todaymixen

From Middle English myxen, from Old English mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīgan, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (“to urinate”); akin to German Mist (“manure”).

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