- The
English mead – "fermented
honey drink" –
derives from the Old
English meodu or medu, and Proto-Indo-European language, *médʰu. Its
cognates include...
- OE
meotan (WS metan) > to mete /miːt/; OE
eotan (WS etan) > to eat; OE
meodu (WS medu) > mead; OE yfel > evil (+r) /iːr/ > GA /ɪr/, RP /ɪə/ OE spere...
- OE
meotan (WS metan) > to mete /miːt/; OE
eotan (WS etan) > to eat; OE
meodu (WS medu) > mead; OE yfel > evil (+r) /iːr/ > GA /ɪr/, RP /ɪə/ OE spere...
-
Anglian dialect, it took
place before all
consonants except c, g (Anglian
meodu "mead",
eosol "donkey" vs. West
Saxon medu, esol). In the
Kentish dialect...
-
argues that the "giving a
bitter drink"
interpretation does not work with
meodu (mead), but also that the
meaning is not
quite as
simple as "a fear that...
