Miete
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmiːtə/
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Etymology 1
From Middle High German miete, from Old High German miata, from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mēzdō, *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰós, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”). Cognates include Proto-Indo-Iranian *miždʰám, Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”) and English meed (“recompense, payment, reward”).
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- vermieten (verb)
Etymology 2
Low German [Term?], Latin mēta (“cone”).
Noun
Miete f (genitive Miete, plural Mieten)
- clamp (heap of potatoes or other root vegetables stored under straw or earth)
Declension
Further reading
- “Miete (Entgelt)” in Duden online
- “Miete (Schober)” in Duden online
- “Miete” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Miete”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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