Etymology

bemete

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Today it means: To measure. Full definition →

Middle English bemeten ← Old English bemetan ← Proto-West Germanic *bimetan
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bimetan
  2. Old English · inherited frombemetan“to measure, compare, account, consider”
  3. Middle English · inherited frombemeten
  4. English todaybemete

From Middle English bemeten, from Old English bemetan (“to measure, compare, account, consider”), from Proto-West Germanic *bimetan; equivalent to be- + mete.

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