Editing Mead (section)

== Etymology ==
The English ''mead'' &ndash; "fermented honey drink" &ndash; derives from the [[Old English]] ''meodu'' or ''medu'',<ref name="ox_meodu">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1944 |title=mead |encyclopedia=The Oxford Universal Dictionary on Historical Principles |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=3rd |page=1222}}</ref> and [[Proto-Indo-European language]], *''médʰu''.<ref name="oed">{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Mead |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/mead#etymonline_v_12487 |access-date=27 August 2018 |publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper}}</ref> Its cognates include [[Old Norse]] ''mjǫðr'', [[Proto-Slavic]] ''medъ'', [[Middle Dutch]] ''mede'', and [[Old High German]] ''metu'', [[Sanskrit]] ''madhu'' and the ancient Irish queen [[Medb]], among others.<ref name=oed/> The [[Chinese language|Chinese]] word for honey, ''mì'' (蜜) is from the word ''mit'', which was borrowed from the extinct Indo-European [[Tocharian B]] ''&ndash;'' and is also cognate with the English word ''mead''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Meier |first1=Kristin |last2=Peyrot |first2=Michaël |date=2017 |title=The Word for 'Honey' in Chinese, Tocharian and Sino-Vietnamese |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |volume=167 |issue=1 |pages=7–22 |doi=10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.167.1.0007 |issn=0341-0137 |jstor=10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.167.1.0007}}</ref>