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Encyclopedia Britannica



MEAD

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 945 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MEAD . (I) A word now only used more or less poetically for the commoner form " meadow," properly
land
  laid down for grass and cut for hay, but often extended in meaning to include pasture-
land
 . " Meadow " represents the oblique
case
 , maedwe, of O. Eng. maid, which comes from the root seen in " mow "; the wind, therefore, means " mowed land." Cognate words appear in other Teutonic
languages
 , a
familiar
  instance being Ger. matt, seen in
place
 -names such as
Zermatt
 , Andermatt, &c. (See GRASS.) (2) The name of a drink made by the fermentation of honey mixed with water. Alcoholic drinks made from honey were common in
ancient
  times, and during the
middle
  ages throughout Europe. The Greeks and Romans knew of such under the names of 66p6 isXi and hydromel; mulsum was a form of mead with the addition of wine. The word is common to Teutonic
languages
  (cf. Du. mede, Ger. Met or Meth), and is cognate with Gr. Ov, wine, and Sansk. mddhu, sweet drink. " Metheglin," another word for mead, properly a medicated or spiced form of the drink, is an
adaptation
  of the Welsh meddyglyn, which is derived from meddyg, healing (Lat. medicus) and llyn, liquor. It therefore means " spiced or medicated drink," and is not etymologically connected with " mead."


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