Noun: mete
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
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Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo. (I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.)
Nouns inflected like mete
hwistlere,
fuglere,
leornere,
folcstede,
grindere,
sundorwine,
morgenmete,
godspellere,
wyrtmete,
swiftlere,
gangere,
delfere,
predicere,
feohtere,
sangere,
horshierde,
feormere,
sunbryne,
heortgryre,
fiþelere, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *mati.
Verbs referencing "mete"
English Nouns
mate, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
mat, Middle English Nouns
mete, Old Norse Nouns
matr, Middle English Nouns
meete.
Translations