meadow
English
/ˈmɛdəʊ/, /ˈmɛdoʊ/
noun
Definitions
- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English medowe inherited from Old English mǣdwe inherited from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (mow, reap), *h₂meh₁- (mow, reap).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂meh₁-
Gloss
mow, reap
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Meadowhall English
- foam English
- hall English
- hawk English
- land English
- lark English
- meadowed English
- meadowfoam English
- meadowhawk English
- meadowland English
- meadowlark English
- meadowless English
- meadowlike English
- meadowrue English
- meadowscape English
- meadowwort English
- meadowy English
- rue English
- wort English
- metere Latin
- meto Latin
- mietere Italian
- *h₂meh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂met- Proto-Indo-European
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- *mēaną Proto-Germanic
- *mēdwō Proto-Germanic
- *mēþą Proto-Germanic
- mæd Old English
- mǣdwe Old English
- medowe Middle English
- medi Welsh
- matelieve Middle Dutch
- *meto- Proto-Celtic