Met
German (Berlin)
/meːt/
noun
Definitions
- mead
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German metu inherited from Proto-Germanic *meduz (mead) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (honey, mead, sweet drink, wine, honey wine).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*médʰu
Gloss
honey, mead, sweet drink, wine, honey wine
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
蜜
Emoji
🍯
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- medus Latin
- alsmede Dutch, Flemish
- mede Dutch, Flemish
- mededelen Dutch, Flemish
- medehal Dutch, Flemish
- medeklinker Dutch, Flemish
- medeleven Dutch, Flemish
- medelijden Dutch, Flemish
- mederij Dutch, Flemish
- medezaal Dutch, Flemish
- μέδος Ancient Greek
- *médʰu Proto-Indo-European
- mjød Norwegian Bokmål
- *meduz Proto-Germanic
- mjød Norwegian Nynorsk
- medu Old English
- Mjǫðvitnir Old Norse
- mjǫðr Old Norse
- mjød Danish
- *medovina Proto-Slavic
- *mȅdъ Proto-Slavic
- med Serbo-Croatian
- med i mleko Serbo-Croatian
- med i mlijeko Serbo-Croatian
- mjöður Icelandic
- metu Old High German
- mjøður Faroese
- mõdu Estonian
- mithi Old Dutch
- *metu Proto-Finnic
- *medu Proto-Celtic
- *medwos Proto-Celtic
- *mádʰu Proto-Indo-Iranian
- miödher Old Swedish
- mjø Westrobothnian
- *mádʰu Proto-Indo-Aryan
- mede Old Frisian
- *medú Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *médu Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *mete fiu-pro
- *métʰu Proto-Hellenic
- *ḿət(ə) Proto-Tocharian
- *ḿətə Proto-Tocharian