Re: [tied] Re: axing a Kentish woman for meat

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6360
Date: 2001-03-05

No, "meat" is a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon noun (OE mete [mete] 'food, nourishment' > ME mete [mE:t@] with open-syllable lengthening > [me:t] > meat [mi:t]), but of course it is _cognate_ to the ON word (as well as being related to Goth. mats, OSax. meti, OHG maz, etc.). The Modern English meaning has been narrowed down, though "meat" can still mean "food" in the idiom "meat and drink", and the older sense is also preserved in "sweetmeat".
 
Piotr
 
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Subject: [tied] Re: axing a kentish woman for meat


Are you sure "Mete" is not of "mat" norwegian/norse for "food"?

Morten