Etymograph

English

shmeat

Blend of sheet + meat.

A blend of sheet + meat

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- ‘to throw, shoot’

Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ

Old English sċīete ‘a sheet of linen’

Middle English schete ‘linen cloth’

English sheet

Proto-Germanic *matiz ‘food’

Proto-West Germanic *mati ‘food’

Old English mete ‘food’

Middle English mete ‘food’

English meat

The story

In 2013, the word was on the shortlist for Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year.

Today it means

noun Animal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.

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

Etymograph / shmeat