Post #1394726
2026-04-05 22:57 UTC
@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'.
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@steffenloewe@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 00:58
@yvanspijk @violanders Wow, the "Metzger" thing is weird! (I looked it up on German Wikipedia, which says that Mett and Metzger are related, but now I see this is actually disputed on the talk page.) Now I'm sitting here at 3 am, researching etymologies on the web. I just learned "Messer" is related to "Mett" and "meat", too! Never thought about that. https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Messer