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English word matter comes from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂tros
*mh₂tros (Proto-Indo-European)
matrem (Latin)
materie (Old French)
materie (Anglo-Norman)
mater (Middle English)
matter (English)
(intransitive) To be important.. (transitive, obsolete, _, outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. (dated) Pus.. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to [...]