"metan" meaning in Old English

See metan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈme.tɑn/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|gmw-pro|ine-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*metan}} Proto-West Germanic *metan, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*metaną}} Proto-Germanic *metaną Head templates: {{ang-verb}} metan Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|metan<s5>}} Forms: strong [table-tags], metan [infinitive], metenne [infinitive], mete [first-person, present, singular], mæt [first-person, past, singular], mitst [present, second-person, singular], mǣte [past, second-person, singular], mitt [present, singular, third-person], mit [present, singular, third-person], mæt [past, singular, third-person], metaþ [plural, present], mǣton [past, plural], mete [present, singular], mǣte [past, singular], meten [plural, present], mǣten [past, plural], met [imperative, past, present, singular], metaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], metende [imperative, present], meten [imperative, past], ġemeten [imperative, past]
  1. to measure
    Sense id: en-metan-ang-verb-3azuFF3K
  2. to compare
    Sense id: en-metan-ang-verb-r4GadJ7g Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 4 33 31 15 13 4
  3. to compare (to something = wiþ + accusative or tō + dative)
    Sense id: en-metan-ang-verb-HlSgwxzM Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 4 33 31 15 13 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: āmetan, bemetan, efnmetan, ġemet, ġemetan, metegian, wiþmetan
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈmeː.tɑn/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|gmw-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*mōtijan}} Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*mōtijaną}} Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną Head templates: {{ang-verb|mētan}} mētan Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|mētan<w1>}} Forms: mētan [canonical], weak [table-tags], mētan [infinitive], mētenne [infinitive], mēte [first-person, present, singular], mētte [first-person, past, singular], mētest [present, second-person, singular], mētst [present, second-person, singular], mēttest [past, second-person, singular], mēteþ [present, singular, third-person], mētt [present, singular, third-person], mēt [present, singular, third-person], mētte [past, singular, third-person], mētaþ [plural, present], mētton [past, plural], mēte [present, singular], mētte [past, singular], mēten [plural, present], mētten [past, plural], mēt [imperative, past, present, singular], mētaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], mētende [imperative, present], mēted [imperative, past], ġemēted [imperative, past]
  1. to meet, encounter
    Sense id: en-metan-ang-verb-l54BThdP Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 4 33 31 15 13 4
  2. to find
    Sense id: en-metan-ang-verb-dN8zHEYd Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 4 33 31 15 13 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mœ̄tan Derived forms: ġemētan
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈmeː.tɑn/
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *maitijan (“to sculpt”), from Proto-Germanic *maitijaną, a byform of Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”). Compare Old High German meizan (“to hew, cut, chisel”), Old Norse meita (“to cut”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (maitan, “to cut”). Doublet of mǣtan (“to appear in a dream”). Etymology templates: {{unc|ang}} Uncertain, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*maitijan|t=to sculpt}} Proto-West Germanic *maitijan (“to sculpt”), {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*maitijaną}} Proto-Germanic *maitijaną, {{cog|gem-pro|*maitaną|t=to cut}} Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), {{cog|goh|meizan|t=to hew, cut, chisel}} Old High German meizan (“to hew, cut, chisel”), {{cog|non|meita|t=to cut}} Old Norse meita (“to cut”), {{cog|got|𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽|t=to cut}} Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (maitan, “to cut”) Head templates: {{ang-verb|mētan}} mētan Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|mētan<w1>}} Forms: mētan [canonical], weak [table-tags], mētan [infinitive], mētenne [infinitive], mēte [first-person, present, singular], mētte [first-person, past, singular], mētest [present, second-person, singular], mētst [present, second-person, singular], mēttest [past, second-person, singular], mēteþ [present, singular, third-person], mētt [present, singular, third-person], mēt [present, singular, third-person], mētte [past, singular, third-person], mētaþ [plural, present], mētton [past, plural], mēte [present, singular], mētte [past, singular], mēten [plural, present], mētten [past, plural], mēt [imperative, past, present, singular], mētaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], mētende [imperative, present], mēted [imperative, past], ġemēted [imperative, past]
  1. to draw or paint Synonyms: *tīefran (english: to paint) Derived forms: āmētan, mēting, onmētan
    Sense id: en-metan-ang-verb-yedYwInh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ġemētan
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "āmetan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bemetan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "efnmetan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemet"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemetan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "metegian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "wiþmetan"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "meten"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: meten",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: meten"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "mete",
            "3": "meit"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: mete, meit",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: mete, meit"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "mete"
          },
          "expansion": "English: mete",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: mete"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "ine-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "5",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mæt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mitst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mǣte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mitt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mæt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mǣton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mete",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mǣte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mǣten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġemeten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "metan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "metan<s5>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to measure"
      ],
      "id": "en-metan-ang-verb-3azuFF3K",
      "links": [
        [
          "measure",
          "measure"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 33 31 15 13 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Look to it now that thy desire be not beyond measure, now that thou comparest them together. Wouldst thou know God just as thou dost Alypius?",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nLōca nu þæt þū ofergemet ne wilnige, nū ðū hī tōgædere metest. Woldest þū cunnan God swā swā Alipius?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to compare"
      ],
      "id": "en-metan-ang-verb-r4GadJ7g",
      "links": [
        [
          "compare",
          "compare"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 33 31 15 13 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It's not comparable, the finite with the infinite.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nHit nis nā tō metenne, þæt ġeendodlīċe wiþ þæt unġeendodlīċe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to compare (to something = wiþ + accusative or tō + dative)"
      ],
      "id": "en-metan-ang-verb-HlSgwxzM",
      "links": [
        [
          "compare",
          "compare"
        ],
        [
          "wiþ",
          "wiþ#Old_English"
        ],
        [
          "tō",
          "to#Old_English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.tɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "metan"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemētan"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "meten"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: meten",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: meten"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "meet"
          },
          "expansion": "English: meet",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: meet"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "mete",
            "3": "meit"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: mete, meit",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: mete, meit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*mōtijan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mētan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "1",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēttest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēteþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēted",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġemēted",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mētan"
      },
      "expansion": "mētan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mētan<w1>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 33 31 15 13 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to meet, encounter"
      ],
      "id": "en-metan-ang-verb-l54BThdP",
      "links": [
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ],
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 33 31 15 13 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to find"
      ],
      "id": "en-metan-ang-verb-dN8zHEYd",
      "links": [
        [
          "find",
          "find"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeː.tɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mœ̄tan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "metan"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemētan"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "meten",
            "t": "to sculpt, design; paint"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: meten (“to sculpt, design; paint”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: meten (“to sculpt, design; paint”)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*maitijan",
        "t": "to sculpt"
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    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 19 entries",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "āmētan"
    },
    {
      "word": "ġemētan"
    },
    {
      "word": "mēting"
    },
    {
      "word": "onmētan"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "meten",
            "t": "to sculpt, design; paint"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: meten (“to sculpt, design; paint”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: meten (“to sculpt, design; paint”)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*maitijan",
        "t": "to sculpt"
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      "name": "inh"
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    {
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        "t": "to cut"
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "meizan",
        "t": "to hew, cut, chisel"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German meizan (“to hew, cut, chisel”)",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
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        "t": "to cut"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽",
        "t": "to cut"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (maitan, “to cut”)",
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *maitijan (“to sculpt”), from Proto-Germanic *maitijaną, a byform of Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”). Compare Old High German meizan (“to hew, cut, chisel”), Old Norse meita (“to cut”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (maitan, “to cut”). Doublet of mǣtan (“to appear in a dream”).",
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      "form": "mētan",
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      "form": "1",
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      "form": "mētan",
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        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētest",
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "mētst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mēttest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēteþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēt",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mētende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mēted",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġemēted",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mētan"
      },
      "expansion": "mētan",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mētan<w1>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to draw or paint"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "draw",
          "draw"
        ],
        [
          "paint",
          "paint"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeː.tɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "to paint",
      "word": "*tīefran"
    }
  ],
  "word": "metan"
}

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