Where does “mētan” come from?

mētan (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną, from Proto-Germanic mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- — to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

mētan (Old English): to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter,...

Definitions

  1. to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter,...

Ancestry of “mētan”, step by step

mētan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic mōtijan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
2Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
3Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

via Proto-Germanic maitijaną

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicmaitijanąto cut
2Proto-Germanicmaitanąto cut, hew; to cut off, sever
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmēi-—

Words derived from “mētan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- →Every word from Proto-Germanic mōtą →Every word from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną →