Noun: mete
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Iudaſ þou moſt to iurſelem oure mete foꝛ to bugge / þritti platen of ſelu[er] þou bere up oþi rugge […] ("Judas, you must go to Jerusalem to buy our food; / You'll have thirty pieces of silver on your back […]) [c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 3-4; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:]
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And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel /[…]/ and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes (And then he blew his horn that the mariners had given him / And when they that were within the castle heard that horn / they put forth many knights and there they stood upon walls / and said with one voice: / “be welcome to this castle” / […] / and Sir Palamedes entered into the castle / And after a while he was served with many diverse meats) [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:]
Nouns inflected like mete
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English mete (“food”), also met, mett, whence the forms with a short vowel. For more, see meat. See: Old English Nouns '
mete'.
Verbs referencing "mete"
English Nouns
mete, Faroese Nouns
matur, Icelandic Nouns
matur.
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