mitta

• mett

Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *metan (“to measure”). Cognate with German Metze.

mitta (plural mittas)

1. (historical) An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:

     Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire.

mitta ?

1. (Luserna) Wednesday

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Proto-Finnic *mitta, borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old English mitta, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (mitaþs, “measure”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmitːɑ/, [ˈmit̪ːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -itːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mit‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): mit‧ta

mitta

1. measure (prescribed quantity or extent)

   ajan mittaan ― with time, in the course of time, as time passes

   samalla mitalla ― in kind, in a similar way, reciprocally

2. measure (limit that cannot be exceeded)

   Minun mittani on täynnä.

   I have reached my measure (I have had enough).

3. measure (receptacle or vessel of standard size)

   suolamitta ― measure of salt

4. measure (standard against which something can be judged)

   Rehellisyys on miehen todellinen mitta.

   Honesty is the true measure of a man.

5. measure (any of various standard units of capacity)

   Kyläläiset maksoivat viholliselle tuhat mittaa viljaa.

   The villagers paid to the enemy a thousand measures of corn.

6. measure (size ascertained by measuring)

   mittatilauspuku ― made-to-measure suit

   hevosenmitta ― horse length

7. measure (something to take measurements)

   mittanauha ― tape measure

8. gauge (instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity)

• “mitta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Matti, matit, matti, mitat

From Proto-Finnic *mitta. Cognates include Finnish mitta and Karelian mitta.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmitːɑ/, [ˈmitː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmitːɑ/, [ˈmitːɑ]
• Rhymes: -itː, -itːɑ
• Hyphenation: mit‧ta

mitta

1. measure

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 311

From Middle High German mittetac, from Old High German mittitac, from mitti (“middle”) + tac (“day”). Compare mitto (“midday”).

mitta m

1. Wednesday

• days of the week (appendix): ma'ta · eirta · mitta · pfinsta · vraita · sònsta · sunta ^[edit]

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

mitta m

1. a dry and liquid measure of volume
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fǣtte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.

     And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mitta”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Sanskrit मित्र (mitrá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitrás.

mitta m or n

1. friend
2. (in the plural) friendship