meá

See also: mea, meã, and me'a

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish med, from Proto-Celtic *medā, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure, consider”). Akin to meas. Cognate with Old English metan, Latin modius, and Ancient Greek μέδιμνος (médimnos, “medimnus”). Compare Scottish Gaelic meidh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʲaː/

Noun

meá f (genitive singular as substantive meá, genitive as verbal noun meáite, nominative plural meánna)

  1. A scale, measure
  2. weights
  3. A balance
  4. verbal noun of meáigh

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meá mheá not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "meá" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “med” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “meá” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “meá” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Spanish

Verb

meá

  1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of mear.
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