vidus
“vidus” is a Latvian word. Its 6 meanings in English:
noun
- middle, center (place situated at approximately the same distance from the edges, sides, extremities (of something))
- middle (moment or period separated from the beginning and the end (of some process) by similarly long time intervals)
- middle (the inside, the internal part (of something))
- in the middle of, in the midst of, amid, among
- middle, waist
- region, area
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *widús, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“forest, wood”). The semantic change from “forest” to “region, area (between villages)” and to “middle, between” probably comes from a situation in which the areas between villages are mostly occupied by forest (cf. the opposite change, from “middle” to “forest,” in Latvian mežs; these two words, mežs and vidus apparently swapped their…
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