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Meat
The noun meat derives from an Anglo-Saxon noun mete, which meant food, portion, or meal. Mete derives from a speculated Proto-Indo-European root mad, which meant moist. Some called the flesh of warm-blooded animals flesh-mete. Some called vegetables grene-mete. Some called dairy products whit-mete. By the 14th century, the meaning of mete had begun to narrow to animal flesh.