meddo

See also: meddő

Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *médu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Cognate with Lithuanian medùs, Latvian medus and Proto-Slavic *mȅdъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲæ̀d̪o̝/

Noun

meddo n

  1. honey

Further reading

  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “medus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309: “OPR meddo”
  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997) “meddo”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius
  • G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “meddo”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 102
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