meiden

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• Rhymes: -ɛi̯dən

meiden

1. plural of meid

From Middle High German mīden, from Old High German mīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *mīþan. Cognate with Dutch mijden and Old English mīþan (archaic English mithe).

The expected past forms in modern German would be *mitt, *gemitten (as still in leiden, schneiden), but the Grammatischer Wechsel was levelled out (perhaps to avoid the similarity with unrelated mit, mitten). To meiden was then adapted scheiden, whose original past participle was gescheiden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ̯dən/, [ˈmaɪ̯.dn̩], [-dən]

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• Homophone: Maiden

meiden (class 1 strong, third-person singular present meidet, past tense mied, past participle gemieden, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to avoid, to keep away from
   • 2010, Der Spiegel‎^[1], number 22/2010, page 126:

     Pasta, Kuchen, Müsli, Brot – wer an Zöliakie leidet, muss viele gängige Lebensmittel meiden: Das Eiweiß Gluten, das bei den Betroffenen zu chronischer Darmentzündung führt, kommt in den meisten Getreidearten vor.

     Pasta, cakes, muesli, bread – someone who suffers from celiac disease has to avoid many common foods: the protein gluten, which leads to chronic intestinal inflammation for the sufferers, occurs in most types of grain.

2. (transitive) to shun

• Meidung

• vermeiden

• “meiden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “meiden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “meiden” in Duden online
• “meiden” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “meiden”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle High German mīden, from Old High German mīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *mīþan. Cognate with German meiden, Dutch mijden, English mithe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɪ̯dən/

meiden (third-person singular present meit, past participle gemidden, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to avoid
2. (transitive) to eschew, to shun

• vermeiden

• meiden in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire

meiden

1. genitive of mö