From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 40622
Date: 2005-09-25
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "A." <xthanex@...>If I understand Pokorny's entry correctly, the source is
> 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.