"Mead/honey" followed basically the exact same path, except for the final borrowing of the Japanese word back into English.
Proto-Indo-European *med^h^u > English "mead"
Proto-Indo-European *med^h^u > Tocharian B (not A) "mit" > Old Chinese "mit" > Japanese "hachi-mitsu" (bee-honey)
In most slavic languages it's also "Med" or a cognate.
catalan: mel
Same as Latin!
Cool post though I’m not fully onboard with the map implying the modern words came into form in America.
Also the source of the word 'circle'
For the map enthused!
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