admire
ad-MYRE · verb
Origin
English admire comes from Middle English admyren, borrowed from Middle French admirer, which traces back to Latin admīror, formed from ad- plus mīror, meaning 'to wonder at.'
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Journey
The word has carried its core sense of wondering at something all the way from Latin through French into English, without any recorded shift in meaning.
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From Middle French