Miete

See also: miete, mieté, and miętę

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtə/

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Etymology 1

From Middle High German miete, from Old High German miata, from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mēzdō, *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰós, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”). Cognates include Proto-Indo-Iranian *miždʰám, Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”) and English meed (“recompense, payment, reward”).

Noun

Miete f (genitive Miete, plural Mieten)

1. rent

Declension

Declension of Miete [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Miete	die	Mieten
genitive	einer	der	Miete	der	Mieten
dative	einer	der	Miete	den	Mieten
accusative	eine	die	Miete	die	Mieten

Derived terms

• halbe Miete
• mietfrei
• Mietvertrag

Related terms

• vermieten (verb)

Etymology 2

Low German [Term?], Latin mēta (“cone”).

Noun

Miete f (genitive Miete, plural Mieten)

1. clamp (heap of potatoes or other root vegetables stored under straw or earth)

Declension

Declension of Miete [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Miete	die	Mieten
genitive	einer	der	Miete	der	Mieten
dative	einer	der	Miete	den	Mieten
accusative	eine	die	Miete	die	Mieten

Further reading

• “Miete (Entgelt)” in Duden online
• “Miete (Schober)” in Duden online
• “Miete” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Miete”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtə/

Noun

Miete f

1. plural of Miet