Met is a defective, impersonal verb, and as such it only occurs in the past tense, for example:
Memet that I was walking in a wondrous wood where a thousand wild wolfins live. (Idreamt that I was walking in a wondrous forest where a thousand wild she-wolves live)
In Old English and Middle English this verb was not defective and was used both personally and impersonally. However, in northern rural dialects, where it is still in use, this verb only occurs in the past tense and in impersonal constructions.
“met” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
(telephony)ellipsis ofuspreekt met...(“you are speaking to...”)Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name or the name of one's company or institution
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Polański, Kazimierz (1973), “met”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 3 (ľǫ̇dü – perĕ), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page379
Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “met”, inPolabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page94
Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Mêt”, inThesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag,→ISBN, page571
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