Miata Mailing List: July 1993, Message #54
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   From: parr@spider.math.ilstu.edu (Jim Parr)
Subject: "miata" origin
   Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 15:00:11 -0400


>> The magazine claims "...the word 'miata' is a German expression for 'high
>> reward'."  I know German pretty well, and I never heard of it, which
>
>It is Old High German.  The word mead comes from it.
>
>                        Ronnie

Thanks to several people who responded to this.  My German is High, but I
don't know any Old.

--Jim

Jim Parr             parr@math.ilstu.edu
ISU Math Department  (309) 438-7167