Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/metom

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Unknown, probably borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.^[1] However, compare Irish maoth (“tender, soft, weak”), from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).^[2] From the same root is Latin mitis (“mellow, soft, weak”).

*metom n

1. blight, decay
2. shame
3. failure, error

• Goidelic:
  • Old Irish: meth
• Brythonic:
  • Middle Welsh: meth
    • Welsh: meth
  • Middle Breton: mez
    • Breton: mezh
  • Middle Cornish:
    • Cornish: meth

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “meth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “meth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies