Etymograph

English

enmesh

From en- + mesh.

A compound of en- + mesh

Proto-Indo-European *mosgʷ- ‘netting, mesh, knot, loop’

Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ ‘mask’

Proto-West Germanic *maskā ‘mesh, net’

Old English masc ‘net’

Middle English mesche

English mesh

Today it means

verb To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh- or net-like manner.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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