different between meath vs mead

English

Noun

meath

1. Obsolete form of mead (“the drink”).

Anagrams

• Hatem, Mehta, Thame, thame, thema

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish methaid (“degenerates, declines, fails, is blighted; fails, comes short; blights, causes to decay; enfeebles, intimidates”).

Verb

meath (present analytic meathann, future analytic meathfaidh, verbal noun meath, past participle meata)

1. (intransitive) decline, decay, fail, deteriorate
2. (transitive) waste, fritter away

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Irish meth (“decay, blight, wasting, failure; (moral) feebleness, degeneracy; failure (to fulfil an obligation)”).

Noun

meath m (genitive singular meatha)

1. verbal noun of meath
2. decline, decay, decadence; failure

Declension

Synonyms

• (decline, decay, failure): meathlú

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

meath m (genitive singular meath)

1. Alternative form of meá (“balance, scales; weight, measure; equivalent; equal, match; estimation, judgment; measure, expedient”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "meath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “methaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “meth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?d, IPA^(key): /mi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: meed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u (“honey; honey wine”).

Noun

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

1. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
2. (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Alternative forms

• meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

Derived terms

• mead-bench
• mead cup
• meaded
• meadery
• mead hall

Translations

See also

• bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)
• ambrosia (noun)
• mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English m?d. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.

Noun

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love —:

     Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!

   • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:

     Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound […] .

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

     'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:

     There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

Derived terms

• Temple Meads
• Thamesmead

Anagrams

• ADEM, ADME, Adem, Dame, Edam, MEDA, dame, made

Spanish

Verb

mead

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of mear.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English mede, from Old English m?d.

Noun

mead

1. meadow

References

• 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN