mæta
Icelandic
/ˈmaiːta/
verb-weak
Definitions
- (transitive) to meet, to encounter
- (transitive) to confront, to face, to brave, to breast
- (intransitive) to turn up, to show up, to come, to appear
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse mœta (meet) derived from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (meet).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*mōtijaną
Gloss
meet
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bemeet English
- countermeet English
- fleshmeet English
- furmeet English
- meet English
- meetable English
- meetcha English
- meeten English
- meeter English
- meetest English
- meeteth English
- meeting English
- meetly English
- remeet English
- swapmeet English
- unmeet English
- miitti Finnish
- *meh₂d- Proto-Indo-European
- *mōtijaną Proto-Germanic
- bemöta Swedish
- möta Swedish
- motian Old English
- mētan Old English
- meten Middle English
- mœta Old Norse
- *muoten Old Dutch
- motian Old Saxon
- møta Old Swedish
- møta, mø̄ta Old Swedish