How to spell migraine

hear itmi·graine/'maɪgreɪn/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A severe recurring headache.

In a sentence: My mom drank tea to help her with a migraine.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as migrane or migrainee.

Same family: migraineur, headache, chronic-migraine, migraine-attack, neurology. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Migraine comes from Old French ‘migraine’, which comes from Late Latin ‘hemicrania’, meaning ‘half the skull’—a reference to the pain often affecting only one side of the head. Over time, the first part of the word was dropped and reshaped into the modern English ‘migraine’.

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