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"text": "Middle English: mede, methe (influenced by Old Norse mjǫðr)"
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"english": "sometimes men are thirstiest after mead. (Durham Proverbs)",
"text": "Hwilum æfter medo menn mæst geþyrsteð",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"text": "mægæ medu ― mead for the kinsman (Undley bracteate)",
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"plural"
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"form": "meda",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "meda",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "meda",
"source": "declension",
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"dative",
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"form": "medum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
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"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"examples": [
{
"english": "sometimes men are thirstiest after mead. (Durham Proverbs)",
"text": "Hwilum æfter medo menn mæst geþyrsteð",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "mægæ medu ― mead for the kinsman (Undley bracteate)",
"type": "quotation"
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"word": "medo"
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{
"word": "meodo"
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