Re: [tied] Re: Meet, meet, and mete

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 40622
Date: 2005-09-25

At 2:12:23 PM on Sunday, September 25, 2005, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "A." <xthanex@...>
> wrote:

>> I was told the term mæþel (maethel) "assembly, council," derives from
>> root of mētan "to meet". It seems to make sense well enough.

> The consonant looks wrong to me. The 'assembly' word has
> Germanic stem *mo:t- (> English _moot_, _meet_ with
> umlaut), and I don't see how to get /þ/ from Germanic *t.

If I understand Pokorny's entry correctly, the source is
*m&d-tlo- > *m&tlo-, whence Germanic *þ.

Brian