Etymology

moonlet

M3O1O1N1L1E1T1

Today it means: a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a planetary ring system. Full definition →

English moon ← Middle English mone ← Old English mōna
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*mḗh₁n̥s
  4. Proto-Germanic*mēnô
  5. Proto-West Germanic*mānō
  6. Old Englishmōna
  7. Middle Englishmone
  8. Englishmoon
  9. English todaymoonlet

From moon + -let.

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