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2026-04-05 22:41 UTC
@yvanspijk @violanders Interestingly, the meaning has narrowed even more in German: "Mett" means "minced pork". Also, in southern Germany, a butcher is commonly called "Metzger".
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@yvanspijk@toot.community 2026-04-05 22:57
@steffenloewe @violanders 'Mett' comes from a slightly different word though: while 'meat' comes from Proto-Germanic *matiz, 'Mett' - via Low German - comes from *matjan. And surprisingly, 'Metzger' is unrelated: it comes from Latin 'macellārius'.