"mitta" meaning in Old English

See mitta in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|head2=|sort=}} mitta m, {{ang-noun|m}} mitta m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-n-m|mitt}}, {{ang-decl-noun|mitta|mittan|mittan|mittan|mittan|mittena|mittan|mittum|num=|title=|type=weak}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], mitta [nominative, singular], mittan [nominative, plural], mittan [accusative, singular], mittan [accusative, plural], mittan [genitive, singular], mittena [genitive, plural], mittan [dative, singular], mittum [dative, plural]
  1. a dry and liquid measure of volume Tags: masculine

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-n-m",
      "source": "declension",
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    },
    {
      "form": "mitta",
      "source": "declension",
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    {
      "form": "mittan",
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        "nominative",
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    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
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    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
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    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
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    {
      "form": "mittena",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "mitta m",
      "name": "head"
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      "expansion": "mitta m",
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        "4": "mittan",
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        "title": "",
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  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "english": "And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nHim becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fǣtte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.",
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        }
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        "a dry and liquid measure of volume"
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        ],
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          "liquid measure",
          "liquid measure"
        ],
        [
          "volume",
          "volume"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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}
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mittum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
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        "g3": "",
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      },
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        "1": "mitta",
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        "3": "mittan",
        "4": "mittan",
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        "6": "mittena",
        "7": "mittan",
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        "title": "",
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  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Old English masculine n-stem nouns",
        "Old English masculine nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
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        {
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          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nHim becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fǣtte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "a dry and liquid measure of volume"
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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          "liquid measure",
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        ],
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          "volume",
          "volume"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mitta"
}

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