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meat

/ˈmit/MEET
/ˈmit/MEET

Meaningfood

Common meaning: animal flesh eaten as food

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√MAD‘chew’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 259, p. 739 · scan
  2. Old Englishmete‘food’sourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishmele‘food’source
  4. Englishmeat‘animal flesh eaten as food’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Old English mete ‘food’.

Roots

  • mete Old English “food”

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