Etymograph

English

hypermutation

From hyper- + mutation.

A compound of hyper- + mutation

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Latin mūtō

Latin mūtātiō ‘change, alteration’

Old French mutacion

Middle English mutacioun ‘alteration, change, modification’

English mutation

Today it means

noun Frequent mutation

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