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单词 mette
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metten.

Forms: Middle English mete, Middle English mett, Middle English mette.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English gemetta.
Etymology: Aphetic < Old English gemetta (see quot. OE) < the Germanic base of y- prefix + the Germanic base of meat n.
Obsolete.
A companion at table.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > [noun] > eating in company > eating companion
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meat-fellowa1382
board-fellow1382
meat ferec1384
messmana1450
commensala1464
companion?1505
messmate1664
trencher-companion1816
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xv. 159 Þa gemettan ne moston þæs lambes ban scænan.]
c1330 King of Tars (Auch.) l. 390 in Englische Studien (1889) 11 42 Gret diol it was forto se Þe bird..To haue so foule a mett [c1390 Vernon mette].
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvi. 41 Pacience and ich weren yputt to be mettes And seten by ous selue at a syd-table.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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