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meti

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See also: METI and metí

Catalan

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meti

  1. inflection of metre:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Italian mettere, ultimately from Latin mittō. Compare French mettre, Portuguese and Spanish meter.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmeti]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eti
  • Hyphenation: me‧ti

Verb

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meti (present metas, past metis, future metos, conditional metus, volitive metu)

  1. to put, place
    Metu ambaŭ manojn sur la stirradon!Put both hands on the steering wheel!

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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  • almeti (to put on or near; apply; enclose)
  • antaŭmeti (to put before (someone), present)
  • demeti (to take off)
  • enmeti (to put in; insert)
  • formeti (to put away)
  • kunmeti (to put together)
  • metiĝi (to put oneself (somewhere))
  • meto (placement)

Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin mittere.

Verb

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meti

  1. (transitive) to put, place, lay, set

Conjugation

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This is a regular -i verb.

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Galician

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Verb

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meti

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

Icelandic

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Noun

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meti

  1. indefinite dative singular of met

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin mittere.

Verb

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meti

  1. to place; to put
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:
      Ch’in tu’l su’ fassulito el me metasse.
      That into his handkerchief he would put me.

Kambera

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Verb

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meti

  1. (intransitive) to die

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Kituba

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Noun

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meti

  1. saliva

Ladino

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Verb

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meti

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

Latin

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metī

  1. present passive infinitive of metō

Latvian

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Verb

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meti

  1. second-person singular past indicative of mest

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: me‧ti

Verb

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meti

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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meti (Cyrillic spelling мети)

  1. second-person singular imperative of mesti

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *męti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *minˀtei.

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Verb

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mẹ́ti impf

  1. to rub

Inflection

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Sonorant + -ti -(j)em
infinitive mẹ́ti
1st singular mánem
infinitive mẹ́ti mȅt, mẹ̑t
supine mȅt, mẹ̑t
verbal noun mẹ́tje
participle converb
present manȅč
past mẹ̑t
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular mȅł, mẹ̑ł mẹ́la mẹ̄lo
dual mẹ̄la mẹ̄li mẹ̄li
plural mẹ̄li mẹ̄le mẹ̄la
present imperative
1st singular mánem
2nd singular máneš máni
3rd singular máne
1st dual máneva mániva
2nd dual máneta mánita
3rd dual máneta
1st plural mánemo mánimo
2nd plural mánete mánite
3rd plural mánejo

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • meti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English meat.

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Noun

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meti

  1. meat, flesh
  2. animal
    • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore[1], New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:
      Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’
      [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']
      Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’
  3. (obsolete) concubine

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Aukan: meti

References

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  • Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “meti”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary