ametan
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]ametan
- inflection of ameter:
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ā- + metan. Cognate with Old High German irmezzan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌼𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (usmitan).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]āmetan
- to measure
- Eratosthenēs ǣrest āmæt þǣre eorðan ymbgang.
- Eratosthenes was the first to measure the Earth's circumference.
- Caedmon's metrical paraphrase
- ...And ǣrest āmet ufan tō grunde and hū sīd sē swarta ēðm sēo.
- ...and first measure from above to its ground, how wide the black vapour is.
- to mete out
- to measure out, plan
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of āmetan (strong class 5)
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
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second person singular | ||
third person singular | , | |
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subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
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imperative | ||
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plural | ||
participle | present | past |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: ameten