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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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mean3 † middle; † intermediary; intermediate in time (now only in
mean time,
mean while); intermediate in kind or degree; mediocre, middling. XIV. — AN.
me(e)n, OF.
meien,
moien (mod.
moyen):- L.
mediānus MEDIAN.
Hence
meantime adv. XVI;
meanwhile adv. XV; reduction of adv. phr.
in the m. time and
m. while (XIV).
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