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22 Indu-Ewropean Routs, ivith Derivatives(to measure), meta (the measuring thing), mensa (a table, thatwhich is set on the table, food), mensura (measure), &c. Cf. Curt.Gr. Etym., p. 328. Gael, meidh (a balance; = meadh) is fromLat. vieta. Gael, mias (a dish) = Lat. mensa.2. Med ( = Europ. root 7nad) is an extended form of the root md.Cf. Tick's Wort. i. 706.To this root belong O. Gael, mess (estimate, judicium, nowTneas) = * med-tvu, coimdiu (lord, dominus, mod. form coimhdhe^= * Go-midiu, coimeas or coimheas (equality) = co-mes = *comedtu,dlmeas or dlmheas (contempt) = di-mes = *di-7ned-tu,irmadadar (intellegit) = ir-mad-adar, conammadarsa (utjiulicem) = conavi-mad-ar-sa, «fec.To the same root belong Gr. fieSw, fxeSofjiai (to think on),yut'^(yui/o? (measure) ;Lat. modus, modius, modestus ; Goth, mita(I mete), mitdn (consider), O.H.G. mezan (to measure), Ger.Tnessen (to measure), &c. Gael, nwdh (mode) is a loan from Lat.•niodus. Windish considers an Irish by-form, mid, probable.Cf Curt. Gr. Etym., p. 242.3 Mens = Indo-Eui-op. mans (moon, month). Cf Fick's Wort.i., 170.To the stem mens, which Curtius refers to the root via (tomeasure), belongs O. Gael, mi (month, now mlos). Gen. mis, ace.pi. inisa.iV before s is dropped in Gael, by rule.= *yU'?>'?.Other related words are Lat. mens-i-s (month), Gr. fxr/vIon. fxelf (month), /xi/vi; (moon), Skr. mas, indsas (month), ZendmdoTiha (moon), Goth, 'mena (moon), menoths (month). Cf Curt.Gr. Etym., p. 334..4. Gaelic mathair (mother ;= 0. Gael, mdtliir) is to be referredto Indo-Europ. *«i,a