Description:

The term 'metru' comes from Old Common, where it was the word for some kind of fizzy fermented beverage on the Hillbillies screenshow. It doesn't have a direct translation into English. When it passed into early period Common outside the show, it was used as a general term for any carbonated fermented alcoholic beverage.

There is also a sense of 'fizz' from this term, but those connotations developed only during the middle period.

Noun:

As a noun, 'metru' means any fermentated, carbonated alcoholic beverage, so it can be applied equally to beer, ciders and sparkling wines. There are a number of specific words that can be applied to specific beverages, but this general word 'metru' is used quite often. Its base meaning in modern High Common seems to be closer to 'beer'. There are a number of clarifications possible using modifiers:

• na cah metru: 'bitter fizz' - beer.
• na axis metru: 'sweet fizz' - sparking wines, champagne, ciders
• na azunys metru: 'dry fizz' - some very dry ciders (Common uses the word 'dry' in the same way as English when it comes to alcoholic beverages, this idiom is a calque). This usage is an affectation and tends to mark the speaker as a snob.

Verb:

As a verb, 'metru' can be a way to say 'to fizz', 'to effervesce.' It has an ameliorating sense, when a speaker choses this word it usually connotes approval. It is an intransitive pali verb with an absolutive subject that is the substance fizzing.

Modifier:

As a modifier, 'metrus' is a way to say that something is fizzy or effervescent with an approving connotation,