See metan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "metan"
},
"expansion": "Old English: metan",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old English: metan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "meten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: meten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: meten"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "mete",
"3": "meit"
},
"expansion": "Scots: mete, meit",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Scots: mete, meit"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mete"
},
"expansion": "English: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: mete"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "meta"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Frisian: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "meete"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian: meete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Saterland Frisian: meete"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "mjitte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian: mjitte",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "West Frisian: mjitte (>ôfmjitte)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "metan"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon: metan",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Saxon: metan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "meten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: meten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Low German: meten"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "meten"
},
"expansion": "Low German: meten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: meten"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "metan"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch: metan\nMiddle Dutch: meten\nDutch: meten\nLimburgish: maete",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Dutch: metan\nMiddle Dutch: meten\nDutch: meten\nLimburgish: maete"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "mezzan"
},
"expansion": "Old High German: mezzan",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old High German: mezzan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "mezzen"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German: mezzen",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle High German: mezzen"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "messen"
},
"expansion": "German: messen",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "German: messen"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lb",
"2": "miessen"
},
"expansion": "Luxembourgish: miessen",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Luxembourgish: miessen"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yi",
"2": "מעסטן"
},
"expansion": "Yiddish: מעסטן (mestn)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Yiddish: מעסטן (mestn)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*metaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *metaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *metaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "gmw-infl-verb-st",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "metan",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "metannjas",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "metannjē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "metannju",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"instrumental"
]
},
{
"form": "metu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mat",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mitiʀi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mātī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mitidi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mat",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mātum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mitid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātud",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metand",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mātī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metēs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metēm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mātīm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metēþ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātīd",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metēn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātīn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mit",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mitid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "metandī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "metan",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "*metan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "gmw-infl-verb-st"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
"lang_code": "gmw-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/metan",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to measure"
],
"id": "en-metan-gmw-pro-verb-3azuFF3K",
"links": [
[
"measure",
"measure"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "mātī"
},
{
"word": "mātu"
}
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "metan"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "metan"
},
"expansion": "Old English: metan",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old English: metan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "meten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English: meten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: meten"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "mete",
"3": "meit"
},
"expansion": "Scots: mete, meit",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Scots: mete, meit"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mete"
},
"expansion": "English: mete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: mete"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "meta"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian: meta",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Frisian: meta"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "meete"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian: meete",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Saterland Frisian: meete"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "mjitte"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian: mjitte",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "West Frisian: mjitte (>ôfmjitte)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "metan"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon: metan",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Saxon: metan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "meten"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: meten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Low German: meten"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "meten"
},
"expansion": "Low German: meten",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: meten"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "metan"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch: metan\nMiddle Dutch: meten\nDutch: meten\nLimburgish: maete",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Dutch: metan\nMiddle Dutch: meten\nDutch: meten\nLimburgish: maete"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "mezzan"
},
"expansion": "Old High German: mezzan",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old High German: mezzan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "mezzen"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German: mezzen",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle High German: mezzen"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "messen"
},
"expansion": "German: messen",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "German: messen"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lb",
"2": "miessen"
},
"expansion": "Luxembourgish: miessen",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Luxembourgish: miessen"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yi",
"2": "מעסטן"
},
"expansion": "Yiddish: מעסטן (mestn)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Yiddish: מעסטן (mestn)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*metaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *metaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *metaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "gmw-infl-verb-st",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "metan",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "metannjas",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "metannjē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "metannju",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"instrumental"
]
},
{
"form": "metu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mat",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mitiʀi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mātī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mitidi",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mat",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mātum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mitid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātud",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metand",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mātī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metēs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metē",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metēm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mātīm",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metēþ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātīd",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "metēn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mātīn",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mit",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mitid",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "metandī",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "metan",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "*metan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "gmw-infl-verb-st"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
"lang_code": "gmw-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/metan",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "mātī"
},
{
"word": "mātu"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-West Germanic class 5 strong verbs",
"Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
"Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Proto-West Germanic verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to measure"
],
"links": [
[
"measure",
"measure"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "metan"
}
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