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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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:19 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: axing a kentish woman for meat
Are you sure "Mete" is not of "mat" norwegian/norse for
"food"?
Morten