meud

Breton

Etymology

Compare Welsh bawd.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmøːt/

Noun

meud m (plural meudoù)

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Inflection

Mutation of meud

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
singular	meud	veud	unchanged	unchanged	veud
plural	meudoù	veudoù	unchanged	unchanged	veudoù

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish méit, mét (“greatness, magnitude, of size, quantity, number, extent, degree”) (compare Irish méid). Cognate with Welsh maint, from Proto-Celtic *mantī-.

Noun

meud m (genitive singular meud, plural meudan)

size, extent
amount, quantity

Derived terms

Terms derived from meud

cia mheud (“how much, how many”)
cuir am meud (“overstate, exaggerate”)

dà-mheudach (“two-dimensional”)
meudachd (“size, magnitude, greatness, scale; calibre”)

trì-mheudach (“three-dimensional”)

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