premenopause

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
4. Proto-Italic*prai
5. Proto-Italic*prai-
6. Latinprae-
7. Middle Englishpre-
8. Englishpre-
9. Proto-Indo-European*med-
10. Proto-Indo-European*meh₁-?
11. Proto-Indo-European*mḗh₁n̥s
12. Proto-Hellenic*méns
13. Ancient Greekμήν (mḗn)
14. Frenchméno-
15. Ancient Greekπαύω (paúō)
16. Ancient Greekπαῦσις (paûsis)
17. Latinpausa
18. Frenchménopause
19. Englishmenopause
20. English todaypremenopause

From pre- + menopause.