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According to McCone, originally from a vṛddhi derivative *mēdw- of *médʰu(“mead”). The short vowel would arise via some secondary process (McCone goes with shortening before -dw- as observed in *swādus > Sadb).
^ McCone, Kim (2020) “The good, the bad and the lovely: the transmission of kingship in Esnada Tige Buchet and the Odyssey, and medieval Irish reflexes of Proto-Indo-European sovereignty myths”, in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, volume 67, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 65–174
^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “meddw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies