męt
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "met"
Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish męty nvir pl. By surface analysis, deverbal from mącić. In the singular, first attested in 1571, in noun 1 sense 1.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]męt m inan
- (countable, chemistry) ground, dreg (tiny particles suspended in a liquid, muddying its transparency) (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- 1571, Pietro de' Crescenzi, Księgi o gospodarstwie[1], volume 2: O pomnożeniu i rozkrzewieniu wszelakich pożytków ksiąg dwojenaście, Krakow: Helena Ungler, page 349:
- A gdy iuż przeſtánie [wino] burzyć śię/ tedy gliná w nie wpuſzcżona cżyśći ie ćiągnąc z ſobą ná doł wſzytek męt y drożdże
- [A gdy już przestanie [wino] burzyć się, wtedy glina w nie wpuszczona czyści je ciągnąc ze sobą na dół wszystek męt i drożdże]
- And when it [wine] stops churning, then clay that was let in cleans it taking with it all dreg and residue
- (uncountable, figurative) chaos, confusion, disorder, muddle (someone's internal state characterized by a lack of order in thoughts)
- (countable, colloquial, ophthalmology) eye floater (speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humor)
- Synonym: mroczek
Declension
[edit]Declension of męt
Noun
[edit]męt m pers
- (colloquial, countable, derogatory) low-life (untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person)
Declension
[edit]Declension of męt
Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “męt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Further reading
[edit]- męt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- męt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/męt on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
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