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með

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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með

  1. with [with dative or accusative]
    • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
      Krummi krunkar úti,
      kallar á nafna sinn:
      „Ég fann höfud af hrúti
      hrygg og gæruskinn.“
      Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
      krummi nafni minn.
      “Krummi croaks outside,
      calling his namesake:
      ‘I found the head of a ram,
      backbone and sheepskin.’
      Come now and peck with me,
      Krummi, my namesake.”
    Ég fór þangað með konunni minni.
    I went there with my wife.

Derived terms

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *midi.

Preposition

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með

  1. with, along with [with dative or accusative]

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: með
  • Faroese: með
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: med
  • Elfdalian: min
  • Old Swedish: mæþ, mz
  • Danish: med
    • Norwegian Bokmål: med

Further reading

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  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “með”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press