meed

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /miːd/    美 /miːd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award. archaic,literary
    — For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.
  2. A gift; bribe.
  3. Merit; worth. dated
    — […]my meed hath got me fame:[…]
动词 v.
  1. To reward; bribe. transitive
  2. To deserve; merit. transitive

词形变化

meeds plural meeds present,singular,third-person meeding participle,present meeded participle,past meeded past

词汇关系

衍生词
meedful meedless
相关词
sosh meed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).
Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German Meed (“rent”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”); further Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda).
词源 2
From Middle English meden, from Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdōn, from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with German Low German meden (“to hire, lease, rent”), German mieten (“to rent”).
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