medhu

    médhu

    English meaning: honey

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Honig; especially Met”

    Grammatical information: n.

    Note: actually substantiviertes adjective ‘sweet”

    Note: Root meli-t : “honey” : Root médhu : “honey” derived from a truncated Root mel-1 (auch smel-), melǝ- : mlē-, mel-d- : ml-ed-, mel-dh-, ml-ēi- : mlī̆ -, melǝ-k- : mlü-k-, mlēu- : mlū̆ - : “to grind, hit; fine, ground”.

    Material: O.Ind. mádhu- n. “honey, Met” (in addition mádhu- ‘sweet”; madh(u)v-ád- “honeyeater”: O.C.S. medv-ědь “bear”); Av. maδu- n. “Beerenwein”; Gk. μέθυ “Wein” (from “Rauschtrank”; die meaning “honey” hat sich auf μέλι zurũckgezogen); μεθύω “bin trunken”, μεθύσκω “make trunken”; O.Ir. mid (gen. medo), Welsh medd, O.Corn. (Plur.?) medu, Bret. mez “Met”, M.Ir. medb “berauschend” (*medhu̯o-), Welsh meddw “berauscht”, Bret. mezo ds., mezvi “berauschen”; O.Ice. mjǫðr, O.E. meodo, O.H.G. metu m. “Met”; Lith. medùs m. “honey” (mìdus “Met” from Goth. *midus), Ltv. mędus “honey, Met”, O.Pruss. meddo (*medu) “honey”; O.Bulg. medъ (gen. medu and meda) “honey” (in addition among others Serb. o-mèditi se ‘spoil, e.g. from fat”, actually ‘sũßlich, fade become or vergären); Toch. В with “honey”. Zur Konkurrenz with *melit “honey” (nie “Honigmet”) and about finn.-uGk. Vergleichungen (finn. mete-, lapp. mītt, mordw. ḿed”; chin. mī4 “honey”) s. Gauthiot MSL. 16, 268 ff., Schrader RL. 85, 2139.

    References: WP. II 261, Trautmann 173 f., Berneker II 31.