# meth
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛθ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛθ

### Etymology 1

Clipping of methamphetamine.

#### Noun

meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)
* (informal) Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.

##### Derived terms

* crystal meth
* methhead
* meth mouth

##### See also

* tweaker

### Etymology 2

Clipping of methadone.

#### Noun

meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)
* (informal) Methadone.
** 1998 November 14, Markus, “Re: METH”, in alt.recovery‎ (Usenet):Dunno why you want to try and make last any longer than it already does. Meth has to be the single most wicked shit I ever involved myself with. But as far as what it actually does, your best bet would be to trot down to the local library and look it up.

### Etymology 3

From meths or methylated spirits, as stereotypically drunk by tramps.

#### Noun

meth (plural meths)
* (derogatory, Liverpool, Manchester) A tramp.

#### See also

* wino

### Etymology 4

From metheglin, from Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“medicinal”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).

#### Noun

meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)
* A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
** 1678, John Worlidge, Vinetum Britannicum, or a Treatise of Cider, 3rd edit.:The Russians, Swedes, Danes, and those of Northern Inhabitants, exceed all the rest, having made the drinking of Brandy, Aqua Vitae, Hydromel, Beer, Mum, Meth, and other Liquors in great quantitites, so familiar to them, that they usually drink our countrymen to death.

### Etymology 5

Clipping of method, which see.

#### Noun

meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)
* (slang) Marijuana.

### Anagrams

* them, TEHM, MHET, tehm

## Cornish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *metom, possibly borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.

#### Noun

meth f (plural methow)
* failure
* shame, disgrace

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).

#### Noun

meth m
* nurture, nourishing

## Middle English
### Noun

meth
* Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مدح (medh), from Arabic مَدْح (madḥ).

### Noun

meth (definite accusative methi, plural methler)
* praise

#### Derived terms

* methetmek (“to praise”)

## Welsh
### Etymology

Ultimately from *mettom, a geminate form of Proto-Celtic *metom. Cognate with Irish meath.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meːθ/

### Noun

meth m or f (plural methion)
* failure, fault, defect
    Synonyms: methiant, pall, diffyg, bai, gwall, ffaeledd, cyfeiliornad
* cessation
    Synonym: darfod
* adversity, misfortune
    Synonyms: aflwydd, adfyd, anap

#### Derived terms

* ar feth (“perished, ruined”)
** mynd ar feth (“to come to ruin, to perish”)
* heb feth (“without failing, unceasing(ly)”)
* methu (“to fail”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “meth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies