Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/metaną

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.tɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*metaną

1. to measure

Inflection

Conjugation of *metaną (strong class 5)

	active voice			passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*metō	*metaų	—	*metai	?
2nd singular	*mitizi	*metaiz	*met	*metazai	*metaizau
3rd singular	*mitidi	*metai	*metadau	*metadai	*metaidau
1st dual	*metōz	*metaiw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*metadiz	*metaidiz	*metadiz	—	—
1st plural	*metamaz	*metaim	—	*metandai	*metaindau
2nd plural	*mitid	*metaid	*mitid	*metandai	*metaindau
3rd plural	*metandi	*metain	*metandau	*metandai	*metaindau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*mat	*mētį̄
2nd singular	*mast	*mētīz
3rd singular	*mat	*mētī
1st dual	*mētū	*mētīw
2nd dual	*mētudiz	*mētīdiz
1st plural	*mētum	*mētīm
2nd plural	*mētud	*mētīd
3rd plural	*mētun	*mētīn
	present	past
participles	*metandz	*metanaz

Derived terms

• *mētiz

Related terms

• *mētō
• *metōną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *metan
  • 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: meten
      • Dutch: meten
      • Limburgish: maete
  • Old High German: mezzan
    • Middle High German: mezzen
      • German: messen
      • Luxembourgish: miessen
      • Yiddish: מעסטן (mestn)
• Old Norse: meta
  • Icelandic: meta
  • Faroese: meta
  • Norwegian: meta
  • Old Swedish: mæta, miæta
    • Swedish: mäta
  • Old Danish: mætæ
    • Danish: måde, (merged with måle)
  • Scanian: meda, máda, máttas
  • Elfdalian: mät åv ?
• → Proto-Finnic: *mët'ëldak (see there for further descendants)