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Mit from the  viscus, and scarcely allied to  mist (see ). Origin obscure.  , and, from the   and  mit, , ‘with,’ and the   mite,  miti; corresponding to  miþ, mid,  and , ‘with,’  mid, obsolete in  (except in midwife). mid, earlier midi, represents, according to the permutation of consonants, pre- miti or meti, and hence is allied to μετὰ, Zend maṭ, ‘with,’ It might also be connected with the cognates discussed under, meaning ‘reciprocal.’  ,, ‘midday, noon, south,’ from and. mettetac, mittitag.  ,, obsolete as an independent word, but preserved in derivatives; mitte,  mitti, , ‘medius’;   midd, preserved in  only in midriff,  mid-hrif (hrif, ‘body,’  corpus),  midnight, mid-Lent, midland, midwinter, &c., and in the derivatives midst, middle, &c.;  midjis, ‘medius.’ It is a common  and Aryan , pre-historic médhyo-s;   mádhyas,  μέσος for *μέϑjος,  medius,  mežda,  (from medja), ‘middle.’ — , ‘mid-day,’ , ‘mid-Lent,’ , ‘Wednesday’; , ‘midnight,’ is  a  , originating in  ze mitter naht,  zi mitteru naht, its frequent locative use (in this case to denote time when) becoming predominant as it did in names of places (e.g. ,   , originated in  ze Baden, ‘at the baths,’ ,  ,  ze Sahsen, ‘in Saxony,’  ‘among the Saxons’). In, however, mitnaht was also used for mittinaht. —  ,, ‘middle,’ from mitte,  mittî, , an abstract form of the. the following article.  ,, ‘middle, interior,’ from mittel,  mittil, , ‘medius, situated in the middle’;  middel,  middle, , a derivative of  miðja-, ‘middle,’ discussed under ; the  form of this derivative was  *midala-, authenticated by  mëtal, , ‘middle.’ —  ,, ‘middle, means, resource,’ from mittel, , ‘middle, centre, something intermediate, means,’ an  used as a ;   middel,  middle. Preposit. derivatives,. .   ,, ‘mud, mould, decay,’ from late   moder, , ‘body that has been decomposed, decay, bog, moor’;   modder, ‘slime,’  mother, ‘slimy substance’ ( in vinegar),  moer, ‘yeast, lees.’ The entire class has become current only in the modern languages;  the corresponding  mot, ‘moor, morass, marsh,’  mudde,  mud. The early history of the cognates is obscure; μυδών, ‘fungous flesh,’ on account of its permutation does not belong to the cognates.   ,, ‘to like, choose; may,’ from mugen, mügen,  mugan, earlier magan,  , ‘to be able, have power,’  magan; a common    with the  and  meaning, ‘to be able, have power,’ as it appears in the  abstract form , and in the compound ;  mœg ( magon,  mihte), whence  may ( might). The stem, mag (mug), from pre- magh, is most closely allied to  mogą, mošti, ‘to be able, have power.’   ,, from the late  mân, earlier mâhen, , ‘poppy’;  *mâhan is wanting, for which  mâgo,  mâge, , ‘poppy,’ with a change of h to g (see  and ), is used (  þahan with  dagên,  tacere); to this  mâgsame ( mâss), ‘poppy,’ is allied. It corresponds to valmughi,  vallmo, ‘poppy.’ The word points to pre- mêkon-, besides which the form mâkon- is presupposed by  μήκων ( μᾶκων),  makŭ, ‘poppy.’ These correspondences, however, do not necessarily imply that the cognates are of genuine Aryan origin. For mâgo a form popig ( poppy) was used in, based on  papaver.   ,, ‘Moor,’ from and  môr, ; derived from  Maurus, whence also  More,  and  Moro. <section end="Mohr" /> <section begin="Möhre" /> , (not current in  and ), from the   mörhe, also more, morhe,,  moraha, morha, ‘carrot’; a non-mutated form occurs in  ;  *maúrhô may be also assumned from  moru (for *morhu), , and more, ,   more, ‘turnip.’ For a derivative of these cognates see under. From morhô-n-, ‘carrot,’  mrkva and  morkovĭ (  *mrŭky) seem to be derived. <section end="Möhre" />