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Galician
Verb
ametan
- inflection of ameter:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Old English
Etymology
From ā- + metan. Cognate with Old High German irmezzan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌼𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (usmitan).
Pronunciation
Verb
āmetan
- to measure
Eratosthenēs ǣrest āmæt þǣre eorðan ymbgang.- Eratosthenes was the first to measure the Earth's circumference.
- Caedmon's metrical paraphrase
...And ǣrest āmet ufan tō grunde and hū sīd sē swarta ēðm sēo.- ...and first measure from above to its ground, how wide the black vapour is.
- to mete out
- to measure out, plan
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