Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *maitanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_maitaną
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*mailosbald*mey-to soil
verbStrong class 7ato cut, hewto cut off, severTraditinally derived from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (‘small’) or *meh₂y- (‘to cut’) (compare Proto-Celtic *mailos (‘bald’)).However, in view of the likely causative *maidijaną (‘to hurt’) (see there for further origin), Kroonen assumes the original form of this verb was *maiþaną, from Pre-Germanic *moitH-, with contamination from the related *mittōną (‘to cut’).