Etymograph

English

more

More comes from Old English māra ‘more’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *maizô ‘more’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*maizô‘more’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*maiʀōreconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150māra‘more’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500more
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1470–1485same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*maizô‘more’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*maiʀōreconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150māra‘more’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500more
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1470–1485same form

Earliest quotation: 1470–1485, Capitulum ii: “Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys…”

Linked words

through Old English māra

mair

Another origin of more

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*merk-‘edible herb, tuber’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*murhǭ‘carrot’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*morhā‘wild carrot’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150more‘carrot, parsnip’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘root’
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Another origin of more

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500moren
  2. Englishtodaymore

Today it means

det Additional; further.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *maizô / more

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