Old English · noun
mete
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong i-stem
- IPA
- /ˈme.te/
- Syllables
- ˈme · te (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- meatfood
Meaning
-
food
Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.
I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.
late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *mati.
Descendants
meat
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