Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/metan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *metaną.

Verb

*metan

to measure

Inflection

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Related terms

Descendants

Old English: metan
- Middle English: meten
  - Scots: mete, meit
  - English: mete
Old Frisian: meta
- Saterland Frisian: meete
- West Frisian: mjitte (>ôfmjitte)
Old Saxon: metan
- Middle Low German: meten
  - Low German: meten
Old Dutch: metan
- Middle Dutch: mēten
  - Dutch: meten
  - Limburgish: maete
Old High German: mezzan
- Middle High German: mezzen
  - German: messen
  - Luxembourgish: miessen
  - Yiddish: מעסטן‎ (mestn)

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