köken: From Middle High German mittel, from Old High German mittil (akin to Old Saxon middil), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), *midil-. Compare Dutch middel, English middle. See also Mitte.
half (of or related to one of two equal divisions of a whole) · half (of or related to any large proportion of a whole) · middle (placed more or less halfway between two positions, times, or alternatives)
köken: Borrowed directly from Latin medius (“half”) rather than inherited through an Old Spanish form, possibly because the likely forms *meo and *meyo would have closely resembled mear (“to piss”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare Portuguese meio, which retained its original inherited form. In reference to spiritual mediums, calqued from Latin…
köken: From Middle Dutch middel, from Old Dutch middil, from Proto-Germanic *midil-, *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”). Cognate with English middle, Low German Middel and German Mittel.
aile: betaalmiddel, betalingsmiddel, contrastmiddel, door middel van, genotmiddel, genotsmiddel, glijmiddel, het doel heiligt de middelen, huismiddel, hulpmiddel
Een pincet is het middel bij uitstek om een splinter te verwijderen.
Aspirine is ondertussen een middeltje tegen alles.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese meio, meo, from Latin medius, from Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare the borrowed doublets médio and médium. Sense of "way" or "mean" from Latin medium.
aile: meia de leite, meia hora, meia-noite, meia-volta, meio milhão, meio-dia
a means (to an end) · an agent (substance used for a specific purpose) · money, capital, funding
çekim: çoğul medels · tamlayan medels
köken: Known from Old Swedish midhel, middel, medhel, from Middle Low German middel, from Old Saxon middil, from Proto-Germanic *midlą. Same as German Mittel and English middle. The stand-alone adjective is archaic, but lives on as the superlative medelst, as a prefix medel- and many related words, e.g. emellertid.
köken: From väli- (“intermediate”) + -ine (diminutive nominal suffix). Coined by Finnish journalist, poet and translator Paavo Tikkanen in 1847 to replace earlier välikappale (attested since 1621), which is now mostly used in a different meaning.