mead

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (uncountable, usually) An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
  2. (US, uncountable, usually) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Freqüència

C2
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/miːd/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) (whence English methyl), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), Persian می (mey), Sanskrit मधु (mádhu), Welsh medd, Finnish mesi, Chinese 蜜 (mì).

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