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Met  ,, ‘matins,’ from mętten, męttene, męttî, męttîn, , ‘early mass,’ late  męttîua, mattîna, ; from  mattîna for matutîna hora (hence also  maten). From matutînum are derived  matin (matines), and  mattino. ,, and.   ,, ‘pork sausage,’ only, from the   metwurst,  ‘food sausage,’ allied to  met, ‘minced meat,’  męti,  mats, ‘food.’ See.    (1.),, from the  steinmętze,  steinmęzzo, , ‘stone cutter’; also once in  steinmeizzo, which is clearly connected with  meiȥȥan, ‘to hew,’ mentioned under. But whether steinmęzzo originated in steinmeizzo, or whether,  *matja (  maçon, ‘mason, bricklayer’) is connected with the root mat, ‘to hew’ ( and  mattock), remains obscure.

 (2.),, ‘corn measure, peck,’ from mëzze,  mëzzo, , ‘small dry measure.’  ë results from the  and  pronunciation. This word, like mitaþs, ‘measure’ (about 18 bush.), is connected with the  root met, ‘to measure’;  mitta, ‘corn measure,’ is also  to  mëzzo. The is still the gender in, the  seems to be of  and  origin. To the pre- root mod (med) belongs modius, ‘peck,’ which (see  and ) before the  period passed into West ;   muddi,  mutti,  mütte, ‘bushel.’

 (3.), ‘prostitute,’ from metze, , which is “literally a pet name for Mathilda, then ‘a girl of the lower class,’ often with the accessory notion of a loose life.” For other abbreviated forms with the suffix tz or z used as pet names,   and.   ,, from the  mętzjœre, mętzjer, , ‘butcher.’ Adopted in the  period from ; at least no better explanation can be found than the derivation from  macellarius, from which, through the medium of mazil-,  *męzijâri, with a  accent and mutation, would be evolved. Allied to macellum, ‘shambles,’ macellarius, ‘qui carnem in macello vendit’; yet the change of ll into j is not clear, therefore a  *macearius ( *mezzigâri) has been assumed. From   macellarius were derived  mętzler,  męzzilâri, ‘pork-butcher.’   , derived, as the first part of a compound, from miuchel-, ‘secret.’ Earlier , from the   miuchelœre, miucheler, late  mûhhilâri, , ‘plotter, assassin.’ Allied to  miuchelingen, ‘insidiously, like an assassin’;  mühhilswërt, ‘assassin's sword, sword for assassination';  mûhhari, mûhho, mûhheo, ‘brigand, footpad’; also mûhhen, mûhhôn, ‘to attack from an ambush';  vermûchen, ‘to get out of the way secretly, conceal,’ and  mocken, ‘to lie hidden’; further   to mitch ( *mŷčan), ‘to he hidden,’  micher, ‘thief.’ The entire class points to a  root mûk, ‘to lurk in ambush with weapons’; a pre- root mûg appears in ;   formúicthe, formúichthai, ‘absconditus,’ formúichdetu, ‘occultatio.’ Since these words well accord in meaning with the  cognates,  *muks,  mjúkr,  meek (to which  meuk, ‘mellow, ripe’ is allied), cannot be associated with them, since their meaning does not correspond to that of the class under discussion. See and.    (1.),, first occurs in early from the   meute, , ‘pack of hounds.’

 (2.),, , first occurs in early from the   meute, ‘mutiny, riot.’  , see.  ,, ‘bodice, corset’ (with and  i instead of ü,  üe); from  müeder, muoder, ,  ‘body, bodily form, skin, article of dress enveloping the upper part of the body, stays, bodice, vest,’  muodar, ‘alvus, belly of a snake’;   mûder,  môther, ‘breast bandage’ (worn by women); , , and  *môþr are wanting. The various meanings are specially ascribed to the relation of, ‘body,’ to , ‘stays.’ The word has also been connected further with μήτρα, ‘‘womb,’ as well as with  mâtrix; this leads to its kinship with the cognates of.   ,, ‘mien, look, bearing,’ only, from  mine. <section end="Miene" /> <section begin="Mies" /> , see. <section end="Mies" /> <section begin="Miete" /> ,, ‘pay, hire, rent,’ from miete,  mieta, miata, earlier méta, , ‘payment, wages'; the  form is<section end="Miete" />