An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Mahd
Mahd, f., ‘mowing, swath,’ from MidHG. mât (gen. mâdes), n. (also f.), ‘mowing, what has been mown, hay, meadow,’ OHG. mâd, n.; hence OHG. mâdâri, MidHG. mâdœre, mœder, ModHG. Mähder, ‘mower’; AS. mœ̂þ, n., ‘mowing, what has been mown, hay,’ E. math in aftermath and lattermath. HG. Mahd, and E. math, Goth. *mêþ (gen. *mêþis), are properly verbal abstracts of the root mê, ‘to mow,’ just as the cognate Gr. ἄμητος, ‘harvest,’ is derived from ἁμάω, ‘I mow’; comp. also ἀμητός, ‘crop, the field when reaped.’ See Grummet, Matte, and Omet. —