Talk:Maeatae

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Is there any connection between the maetae and meath in Ireland? I know legend connects the king that created meath's originally wanting to do so with the help of Romans from Scotland but have not seen maetae and meath connected.


 * It doesn't look likely - the earliest known form of the name "Meath" is Old Irish Míde, literally "middle". The similarity between Latin Meatae (/me:atаɪ/) and modern English "Meath" (/mi:ð/) is not phonetic - they look similar, but represent different sounds, because the two languages have very different spelling systems. --Nicknack009 (talk) 21:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)