moyen

The story

1. Latin · derived frommedius“middle”
2. Old French · derived frommeien
3. Middle English · inherited frommoyen
4. English todaymoyen

From Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Doublet of mid and mean.

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