Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mati

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *matiz.

Noun

*mati m^[1]

food

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mati
Genitive	*matī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mati	*matī
Accusative	*mati	*matī
Genitive	*matī	*mattjō
Dative	*matī	matim, mattjum
Instrumental	*matī	matim, mattjum

Derived terms

*matisahs

Descendants

Old English: mete, met, mett, mette
- Middle English: mete, mæte, meet, meete, meate, mette, met
  - English: meat
  - Scots: mete, met, meit, mait
  - Yola: maate, met
Old Frisian: mete, meit, met
- North Frisian: meet
Old Saxon: meti, mat
- Middle Low German: met
  - Low German: met, Mett
  - → German: Mett
Old Dutch: *mat, *meti
- Middle Dutch: met
  - Dutch: met
Old High German: maz
- Middle High German: maz

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47: “PWGmc *mati”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47: “PWGmc *mati”

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