-met

See also: Appendix:Variations of "met"

Czech

Etymology

From metat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛt]

Suffix

-met m inan (noun-forming suffix)

1. Denotes a device used for throwing or firing something

   ‎granát (“grenade”) + ‎-o- + ‎-met → ‎granátomet (“grenade launcher”)

   ‎kule (“bullet”) + ‎-o- + ‎-met → ‎kulomet (“machine gun”)

   ‎plamen (“flame”) + ‎-met → ‎plamenomet (“flamethrower”)

   ‎světlo (“light”) + ‎-met → ‎světlomet (“headlight”)

Declension

Declension of -met (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	-met	-mety
genitive	-metu	-metů
dative	-metu	-metům
accusative	-met	-mety
vocative	-mete	-mety
locative	-metu	-metech
instrumental	-metem	-mety

Derived terms

Category Czech terms suffixed with -met not found

Further reading

• -met in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

Latin

Etymology

Probably related to the ablative form of the first person singular personal pronoun, egō, which was mēt/mēd in Old Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /met/, [mɛt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /met/, [met̪]

Suffix

-met

1. an intensifier of substantive and less frequently adjective personal pronouns, it is usually followed by "ipse"
   • ego meaning "I" → egomet meaning "I myself"
   • mihi the dative of ego → mihimet meaning "to myself"
   • me the ablative and accusative of ego → memet meaning "me myself" or "myself"
   • nos meaning "we" → nosmet meaning "ourselves"
   • nobis the ablative and dative of nos → nobismet meaning "to/in/with ourselves"
   • tu meaning "you" + te the ablative and accusative of tu → tutemet meaning "you yourself"
   • tibi the dative of tu → tibimet meaning "to you yourself"
   • vos meaning "you (people)" or "ye" → vosmet meaning "yourselves"
   • mea meaning "my" or "mine" → meamet meaning "my very own"
   • se → semet meaning "himself"
   • sua → suamet meaning "his very own"

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -met

• met ipse (Vulgar Latin)
• *metipsimus (Vulgar Latin)

See also

• -pte

Pipil

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh.

Noun

-met

1. Forms plural nouns related to human topics.

Further reading

• Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter. p. 51