Etymograph

English

mash

Mash comes from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz ‘mixture, mash’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ- ‘to mix’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meyǵ-‘to mix’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*maiskaz‘mixture, mash’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150mǣsċ
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mash
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1609–1612same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meyǵ-‘to mix’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*maiskaz‘mixture, mash’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150mǣsċ
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mash
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1609–1612same form

Earliest quotation: 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, The Captaine: “For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ- ‘to mix’

mix, 7 more

Another origin of mash

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*maiskijanąreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150*māsċanreconstructed
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mashen
  4. Englishtodaymash

Today it means

noun A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ- / mash

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