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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "meedful"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "meedless"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*mey- (change)"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "meede"
},
"expansion": "Middle English meede",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "mede"
},
"expansion": "mede",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "ang",
"3": "mēd"
},
"expansion": "Old English mēd",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "meord"
},
"expansion": "meord",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "meard"
},
"expansion": "meard",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "meorþ",
"3": "",
"4": "meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe"
},
"expansion": "meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*miʀdu"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*mizdō",
"4": "",
"5": "meed"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*misdʰós",
"4": "*misdʰéh₂"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*mey-",
"t": "to exchange"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "miede",
"3": "",
"4": "wages"
},
"expansion": "Dutch miede (“wages”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "mede",
"3": "",
"4": "payment, wages, reward"
},
"expansion": "Low German mede (“payment, wages, reward”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Miete",
"3": "",
"4": "rent"
},
"expansion": "German Miete (“rent”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉",
"3": "",
"4": "meed, reward, payment, recompense"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μισθός",
"3": "",
"4": "wage"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cu",
"2": "мьзда",
"3": "",
"4": "reward"
},
"expansion": "Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "मीळ्ह",
"tr": "mīḷhá"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "मीढ",
"tr": "mīḍhá"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ae",
"2": "𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀"
},
"expansion": "Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).\nCognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German mede (“payment, wages, reward”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”), Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "meeds",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "meed (plural meeds)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "79 4 6 5 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1829, Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress",
"text": "Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões\nBetter to merit and the meed to miss,\nthan, lacking merit, every meed possess."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award."
],
"id": "en-meed-en-noun-0KnAAbmI",
"links": [
[
"payment",
"payment"
],
[
"recompense",
"recompense"
],
[
"reward",
"reward"
],
[
"deserts",
"deserts"
],
[
"award",
"award"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"literary"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A gift; bribe."
],
"id": "en-meed-en-noun-x9oKJCVn",
"links": [
[
"gift",
"gift"
],
[
"bribe",
"bribe"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16",
"text": "In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Merit or desert; worth."
],
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"links": [
[
"Merit",
"merit"
],
[
"desert",
"desert"
],
[
"worth",
"worth"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) Merit or desert; worth."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/miːd/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophone": "mead"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːd"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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}
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"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "meden"
},
"expansion": "Middle English meden",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "*mēdian",
"4": "",
"5": "to reward, bribe"
},
"expansion": "Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*mizdōną",
"4": "",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
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"3": "*misdʰ-",
"4": "",
"5": "to pay"
},
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"name": "der"
},
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"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "mēden",
"3": "",
"4": "to reward"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German mēden (“to reward”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "mieten",
"3": "",
"4": "to rent"
},
"expansion": "German mieten (“to rent”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English meden, from Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with Middle Low German mēden (“to reward”), German mieten (“to rent”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "meeds",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "meeding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "meeded",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "meeded",
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"past"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "sosh meed"
}
],
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{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To reward; bribe."
],
"id": "en-meed-en-verb-Kx-aTWFf",
"links": [
[
"reward",
"reward"
],
[
"bribe",
"bribe"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To reward; bribe."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To deserve; merit."
],
"id": "en-meed-en-verb-uoD0NVFT",
"links": [
[
"deserve",
"deserve"
],
[
"merit",
"merit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To deserve; merit."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/miːd/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophone": "mead"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːd"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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"2": "adjective"
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],
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"pos": "adj",
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{
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"word": "med"
}
],
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]
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}
],
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}
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"word": "mijden"
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],
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"singular past indicative of mijden"
],
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"mijden",
"mijden#Dutch"
]
],
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"singular"
]
}
],
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{
"rhymes": "-eːt"
},
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"audio": "Nl-meed.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Nl-meed.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
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}
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"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "meed",
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}
],
"lang": "Estonian",
"lang_code": "et",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Estonian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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],
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{
"word": "mesi"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nominative plural of mesi"
],
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"links": [
[
"mesi",
"mesi#Estonian"
]
],
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
}
],
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}
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"etymology_number": 1,
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"2": "noun"
},
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}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "(“mead (beverage)”)",
"word": "mede"
}
],
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{
"_dis": "54 19 27",
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],
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"mede",
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]
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}
],
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}
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"etymology_number": 2,
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "meadow",
"word": "mede"
}
],
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"Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)"
],
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"links": [
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"mede",
"mede#Middle_English:_meadow"
]
],
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]
}
],
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}
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"etymology_number": 3,
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"2": "noun"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "reward",
"word": "mede"
}
],
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],
"id": "en-meed-enm-noun-1olyySXV",
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"mede",
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]
],
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]
}
],
"word": "meed"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"english": "brisk, lively",
"word": "munta"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pdt",
"2": "gml",
"3": "möde"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German möde",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pdt",
"2": "osx",
"3": "mōthi"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon mōthi",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pdt",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*mōþī"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *mōþī",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Low German möde, from Old Saxon mōthi, from Proto-West Germanic *mōþī.",
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{
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"2": "adjective"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "pdt",
"pos": "adj",
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{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Plautdietsch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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},
{
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"Entry maintenance"
],
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}
],
"derived": [
{
"roman": "overtired",
"word": "äwameed"
},
{
"english": "dog-tired",
"word": "huntmeed"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "he was very tired",
"text": "hee wia sea meed"
}
],
"glosses": [
"tired, weary, fatigued, fagged"
],
"id": "en-meed-pdt-adj-K2bCF8gk",
"links": [
[
"tired",
"tired"
],
[
"weary",
"weary"
],
[
"fatigued",
"fatigued"
],
[
"fagged",
"fagged"
]
],
"related": [
{
"english": "sleepy",
"word": "schleeprich"
},
{
"english": "to sigh, to yawn",
"word": "hoojoonen"
},
{
"english": "tired of, sick of",
"word": "enoolent"
},
{
"english": "weary",
"word": "kjnirr"
}
]
}
],
"word": "meed"
}
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],
"lang": "Central Franconian",
"lang_code": "gmw-cfr",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "med"
}
],
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"Central Franconian adjectives",
"Central Franconian entries with incorrect language header",
"Central Franconian lemmas"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of med"
],
"links": [
[
"med",
"med#Central Franconian"
]
],
"tags": [
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"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "meed"
}
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"1": "nl",
"2": "verb form"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch non-lemma forms",
"Dutch terms with audio links",
"Dutch verb forms",
"Rhymes:Dutch/eːt",
"Rhymes:Dutch/eːt/1 syllable"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "mijden"
}
],
"glosses": [
"singular past indicative of mijden"
],
"links": [
[
"mijden",
"mijden#Dutch"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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