mjǫt

From Proto-Germanic *metą (“measure”). Cognate with Old English met, Old Saxon met, Old High German mez.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈmj̃ɒ̃t/

mjǫt n pl

1. (poetic, plural only) the right measure
   • Höfuðlausn, verse 19, lines 3-4, in 1838, Grønlands Historiske Mindesmærker, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 454:

     Kann ek mæla miöt / Of manna ſiöt. […]

     Know I the right measure of words / In front of the audience. […]

• mjǫtuðr

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “mjǫt”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 433
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mjöt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 301; also available at the Internet Archive