The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*med-
- Latin · derived frommodius“peck; Roman dry measure”
- Middle Dutch · derived frommudseken“mutchkin”
- English todaymutchkin
From Middle Dutch mudseken (“mutchkin”), from mutse (“mutch”), from Classical Latin modius (“peck; Roman dry measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med-.
Words from the same roots
Latinmodius all →
muidmodiusmoio
Proto-Indo-European*med- all →
meetemptymeditationmodulationblackmailmotemodicummetemouldercommodiousincommode
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.