Etymograph

English

mesoderm

From meso- + -derm.

Formed from meso + derm

Proto-Indo-European *médʰi ‘with, among’

Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos ‘middle’

Proto-Hellenic *métsos ‘middle’

Ancient Greek μέσος ‘middle’

English meso

Proto-Indo-European *der- ‘to tear, tear apart’

Proto-Hellenic *dérō

Ancient Greek δέρω ‘to skin, flay’

Ancient Greek δέρμα ‘skin’

English derm

Today it means

noun One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g. muscles, spine and the circulatory system.

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