mjǫt

Old Norse

FWOTD – 20 August 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *metą (“measure”). Cognate with Old English met, Old Saxon met, Old High German mez.

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈmj̃ɒ̃t/

Noun

mjǫt n pl

1. (poetic, plural only) the right measure
   • Höfuðlausn, verse 19, lines 3-4, in 1838, Grønlands Historiske Mindesmærker, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 454:

     Kann ek mæla miöt / Of manna ſiöt. […]

     Know I the right measure of words / In front of the audience. […]

Declension

  Declension of mjǫt, (strong a-stem, plural only)

neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	mjǫt	mjǫtin
accusative	mjǫt	mjǫtin
dative	mjǫtum	mjǫtunum
genitive	mjǫta	mjǫtanna

Related terms

• mjǫtuðr

References

• mjǫt in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• mjǫt in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.