-met
See also: Appendix:Variations of "met"
Czech
Etymology
From metat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɛt]
Suffix
-met m inan (noun-forming suffix)
- Denotes a device used for throwing or firing something
- granát (“grenade”) + -o- + -met → granátomet (“grenade launcher”)
- kule (“bullet”) + -o- + -met → kulomet (“machine gun”)
- plamen (“flame”) + -met → plamenomet (“flamethrower”)
- světlo (“light”) + -met → světlomet (“headlight”)
Declension
Declension of -met (hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -met | -mety |
| genitive | -metu | -metů |
| dative | -metu | -metům |
| accusative | -met | -mety |
| vocative | -mete | -mety |
| locative | -metu | -metech |
| instrumental | -metem | -mety |
Derived terms
Czech terms suffixed with -met
Further reading
- -met in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain, de Vaan suggests inheritance from Proto-Indo-European *me (“with”) + *-ti.[1]
Alternatively, Dunkel suggests egomet originates from *eǵh₂óm + *éti. From there, -met would have been reanalysed as suffix.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [met]
Suffix
-met
- an intensifier of substantive and less frequently adjective personal pronouns, it is usually followed by "ipse"
- ego meaning "I" → egomet meaning "I myself"
- mihi the dative of ego → mihimet meaning "to myself"
- me the ablative and accusative of ego → memet meaning "me myself" or "myself"
- nos meaning "we" → nosmet meaning "ourselves"
- nobis the ablative and dative of nos → nobismet meaning "to/in/with ourselves"
- tu meaning "you" + te the ablative and accusative of tu → tutemet meaning "you yourself"
- tibi the dative of tu → tibimet meaning "to you yourself"
- vos meaning "you (people)" or "ye" → vosmet meaning "yourselves"
- mea meaning "my" or "mine" → meamet meaning "my very own"
- se → semet meaning "himself"
- sua → suamet meaning "his very own"
Derived terms
- met ipse (Vulgar Latin)
- *metipsimus (Vulgar Latin)
See also
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “-met”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 376-7
- ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 201
Pipil
Etymology
Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh.
Noun
-met
- Forms plural nouns related to human topics.
Further reading
- Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter. p. 51