köken: From Middle High German instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum. Compare Middle Low German instrument (whence German Low German Instrument), Middle English instrument (whence English instrument), Middle Dutch instrument (whence Dutch instrument).
köken: From Middle Dutch element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”), of uncertain origin (see further etymology there).
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
element; basic building block of matter in ancient philosophy · element; a place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards · elements; forces of weather
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit माध्यम (mādhyama, “middle, central”), vṛddhi derivative of मध्यम (madhyama). The noun is a semantic loan from and phono-semantic matching of English medium.
element (one of the hypothetical four basic building blocks of matter: water, earth, fire, and air) · element (group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic)