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From Middle Dutch ghemet, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *gametan, equivalent to ge- +‎ meten. Cognates include Old English ġemet, Old Saxon gimet, Old High German gimez.

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gemet n (plural gemeten, diminutive gemetje n)

1. (obsolete) a measure of land roughly the size of an acre

• Tiengemeten

• meten

gemet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of gemō

• IPA^(key): /jeˈmet/

From Proto-West Germanic *gamet, equivalent to ġe- +‎ met.

ġemet n

1. measure
   • c. 1087, the Peterborough Chronicle, obituary for William the Conqueror

     Hē wæs milde þām gōdum mannum þe God lufodon, and ofer eall ġemet stearc þām mannum þe wiþcwǣdon his willan.

     He was kind to the good people who loved God, and stern beyond all measure to the people who defied his will.

   • c. 1009, Æthelred's laws of the meeting at Eanham

     Ġemetu and ġewiht ryhte man ġeorne.

     Let measures and weights be set carefully.

2. measurement
3. capacity, ability
4. rule, law
5. (grammar) grammatical mood
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Þæt ōðer ġemet is þæt bebēodendlīċe. Mid þām ġemete wē hātaþ ōðre menn dōn sum þing oþþe sum þing þrōwian.

     The second mood is the imperative. With this mood we order other people to do something or to undergo something.

• ġemetlǣċan
• ġemetlīċ

• metan

• Middle English: ȝemet, imet

From Proto-West Germanic *gamet, equivalent to ġe- +‎ met.

ġemet

1. fit, proper, meet

gemet n (plural gemete)

1. Alternative form of geamăt

gemet

1. definite singular of gem