Noun: mead
Sample Sentences
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"Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting." [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 47:]
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No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse. [2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:]
Nouns inflected like mead
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”).
2. Cognate with Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) (whence English methyl), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), Persian می (mey), Sanskrit मधु (mádhu), Welsh medd, Finnish mesi, Chinese 蜜 (mì). See: Middle English Nouns '
mede', Old English Nouns '
medu', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέθυ', English Nouns '
methyl', Finnish Nouns '
mesi'.
Verbs referencing "mead"
German Nouns
Met, Finnish Nouns
mesi, Dutch Nouns
mede, Russian Nouns
мёд, Ancient Greek Nouns
μέθυ, Old Norse Nouns
mjǫðr, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
mjød.