• Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        “Meitemark” in Norwegian. Which is a strange word when I considered it, so I looked it up. Meite is the word for fishing with edible/biological bait. So that makes sense.

        Meite probably comes from norse “meita” from cut/slice from the meaning to do a stabbing motion.

        This makes no sense.