met

• enPR: met, IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

met

1. simple past tense and past participle of meet

met

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of mete (to measure)
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

     Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground,
     With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;

From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).

met (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past met, no past participle)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
   • c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:

     All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.

• Met is a defective, impersonal verb, and as such it only occurs in the past tense, for example:

Me met that I was walking in a wondrous wood where a thousand wild wolfins live. (I dreamt that I was walking in a wondrous forest where a thousand wild she-wolves live)

• In Old English and Middle English this verb was not defective and was used both personally and impersonally. However, in northern rural dialects, where it is still in use, this verb only occurs in the past tense and in impersonal constructions.

• EMT, MTE, TEM, TME

• moet (Cape Afrikaans)

From Dutch met, from Middle Dutch met, from Old Dutch mit, from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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met

1. with
   • 1921, C.J. Langenhoven (lyrics), M.L. de Villiers (music), “Die Stem van Suid-Afrika”, South Africa:

     Met ons land en met ons nasie.

     With our land and with our people.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/

met

1. but

met

1. third-person singular present indicative form of metre
2. second-person singular imperative form of metre

• mot, möt (Eifel)

From Old High German mit.

• IPA^(key): /met/ (most dialects)
• IPA^(key): /mɛt/ (few dialects)

met (+ dative)

1. (most dialects) with

• mem (contraction with the masculine and neuter definite article)

met

1. what

From Middle High German mit, from Old High German mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi. Cognate with German mit, Dutch met, Middle English mid, Icelandic með.

met

1. (Sette Comuni, + dative) with

• memme
• mettar
• metten

• “met” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛt]
• Homophone: med
• Rhymes: -ɛt

met n

1. genitive plural of meta

From Middle Dutch met, from Old Dutch mit, variant of *midi (from which mee, mede), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/, /mɛ/

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• Hyphenation: met
• Rhymes: -ɛt

met

1. with, along with (another person)
2. with, using (a tool, instrument or other means)
3. at, for, during (a holiday/festivity)

   Heb je zin om met kerst bij ons langs te komen?

   Do you fancy visiting us for Christmas?

4. (telephony) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt met..."

   Met Jan de Vries.

   Hello, this is Jan de Vries.

• Berbice Creole Dutch: mete
• Jersey Dutch: met, mät
• Negerhollands: met, mi, mit, mee
• Skepi Creole Dutch: met

From Middle Dutch met, from Proto-Germanic *matją, whence also German Mett (through Low German). Related with Proto-Germanic *matiz, whence English meat.

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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• Hyphenation: met
• Rhymes: -ɛt

met n or m (uncountable)

1. (dated, Eastern Netherlands) mince (sometimes specifically uncooked)

• metworst

• tem

• IPA^(key): /meːʰt/

met n (genitive singular mets, plural met)

1. prestige, image, reputation, regard
2. record

• heimsmet (world record)
• metár (record year), metsølubók (bestseller), mettíð (record time)

me with the regular plural suffix -t.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet/, [ˈme̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification^(key): met

met

1. (personal, dialectal) we

• me (standard Finnish)
• myö (dialectal)

• emt

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/

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• Homophone: mets

met

1. third-person singular present indicative of mettre

• IPA^(key): /mɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

met n (genitive singular mets, nominative plural met)

1. scale (tool for weighing objects)
2. record (most extreme known value of some achievement)

• heimsmet
• metár
• metsölubók
• mettími
• slá met

• “met” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

met

1. too; also

From Finnish me, from Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet/

met

1. we

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

From Hebrew מת‎ (met).

met (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מת‎)

1. dead

• niftar

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “met”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC

met

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of mest
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of mest
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of mest
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of mest
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of mest
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of mest

• IPA^(key): /met/

met

1. Medial form of mete

From Old Dutch mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

• IPA^(key): /met/

met [+dative]

1. with
2. by means of, using (a tool, material etc.)
3. at the same time as, at
4. with, under circumstances of
5. concerning

• mēde

• Dutch: met
• Limburgish: mit

• “met (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “met (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• IPA^(key): /met/

met n

1. Synonym of ġemet (“measure”)

• metbielġ (“wallet”)
• metcundlīċ (“metrical”)
• metecorn (“apportion or allowance of grain”)
• metġeard (“measuring stick, measuring rod”)
• metrāp (“measuring rope, sounding line”)

met

1. Alternative form of mid

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: met

met

1. genitive plural of meta

• IPA^(key): /mɛ́t/

mȅt m inan

1. throw (flight of a thrown object)

From Ottoman Turkish مد‎, from Arabic مَدّ‎ (madd).

met (definite accusative meddi, plural metler)

1. flow
2. tide

• met dalgası

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “met”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

met (nominative plural mets)

1. (unit) metre

From meta (“to measure.”) Compare Old Norse mjǫt.

met n

1. Measurement.[1]

   dröuw uti meten ― ample in measurement

From Middle English mete, from Old English mete, from Proto-West Germanic *mati.

met

1. food, meat in its old meaning.

• met-borde (“dining table”)

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 56

• IPA^(key): /mət˧/

met

1. bug

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41