English

handmirror

From hand + mirror.

Formed from hand + mirror

Proto-Germanic *handuz

Proto-West Germanic *handu

Old English hand

Middle English hond

English hand

Proto-Indo-European *(s)mey- ‘to laugh, to be glad’

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Latin mīror ‘wonder at’

Old French mirer ‘mirror (lit. looker)’

Old French mireor

Middle English mirour ‘a mirror’

Today it means

noun A handheld mirror.

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

Etymograph / handmirror