meg
See also: Meg, MEG, még, mēg, -meg, and meg-
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: mĕg, IPA(key): /mɛɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology 1
Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.
Noun
meg (plural megs)
- (colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.
- (computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs of RAM." (megabytes)
- (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)
- (heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)
See also
- mil
Etymology 2
Unknown
Noun
meg (plural megs or meg)
- (obsolete, US, slang) a dollar
- 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
- He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.
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Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2023), “meg”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Etymology 3
Clipping of nutmeg.
Noun
meg (plural megs)
- (colloquial, soccer) a nutmeg
Verb
meg (third-person singular simple present megs, present participle megging, simple past and past participle megged)
- (colloquial, soccer, transitive) To nutmeg an opponent.
Noun
meg (plural megs)
- (colloquial) A megalodon.
Anagrams
- EGM, EMG, GEM, Gem, MGE, gem
Esperanto
| 1,000,000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : meg Ordinal : mega | ||
Etymology
Back-formation from mega-.
Numeral
meg
- (neologism, rare) million, 106
Synonyms
- miliono
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [meː]
- Rhymes: -eː
Pronoun
meg sg
- me, accusative singular of eg (“I”)
Declension
Faroese personal pronouns
| Personal pronouns (Persónsfornøvn) | |||||
| Singular (eintal) | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person masc. | 3rd person fem. | 3rd person neut. |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | eg, jeg | tú | hann | hon | tað |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | meg, mjeg | teg, tjeg | hana | ||
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | mær | tær | honum | henni | tí |
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | mín | tín | hansara, hans† | hennara, hennar† | tess |
| Plural (fleirtal) | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person masc. | 3rd person fem. | 3rd person neut. |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | vit | tit | teir | tær | tey |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | okkum | tykkum | |||
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | teimum, teim† | ||||
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | okkara | tykkara | teirra | ||
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *müŋä (“rear, beyond”). For a similar semantic development, see Finnish cognate myös (“also, too”). Of the same origin as mögött, mögé, and mögül.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛɡ]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Conjunction
meg
- and
- Synonyms: és, s
- Csak te meg én! ― Only you and me!
- plus (sum of the previous one and the following one)
- Három meg egy egyenlő néggyel. ― Three plus one equals four.
Usage notes
This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with meg- (usually expressing completion), occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see meg-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.
- Ezt nem eszem meg! ― I will not eat this [up]; i.e., I will not complete eating it.
Derived terms
Compound words
- megannyi
References
- Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #552
Further reading
- meg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Livonian
Alternative forms
- (Courland) mēg
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *mek.
Pronoun
meg
- we; nominative plural of minā
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse mik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæɪ̯/
Pronoun
meg
- objective case of jeg: me
See also
Personal pronouns in Bokmål
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Second | – | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
| Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
| masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | |||||
| feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
| masculine (noun) | ||||||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | ||||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
| Second | – | dere | deres | |||||
| Third | general | de | dem | deres | ||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
References
- “meg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “meg” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse mik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːɡ/
Pronoun
meg
- objective case of eg: me (direct object of a verb)
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns
| person | first person | second person | reflexive | third person | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | singular masculine | singular feminine | singular neuter | ||
| nominative | eg, je1 | du | han | ho | det, dat2 | |
| accusative | meg | deg | seg | han, honom2 | ho, henne2 | det, dat2 |
| dative2 | meg | deg | seg | honom | henne | di2 |
| genitive | min | din | sin | hans | hennar, hennes1 | dess3 |
| case | plural | |||||
| nominative | me, vi | de, dokker | dei | |||
| accusative | oss, okk | dykk, dokker | seg | dei, deim2 | ||
| dative | oss, okk | dykk, dokker | seg | deim2 | ||
| genitive | vår, okkar | dykkar, dokkar | sin | deira, deires1 | ||
References
- “meg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) matg
- (Vallader) mai
Etymology
From Latin (mensis) Māius (“of May”).
Proper noun
meg m
- (Puter) May
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), accusative of *ek (“I”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːɣ/ (example of pronunciation)
Pronoun
meg
- me (first-person accusative and dative singular personal pronoun)
Declension
Westrobothnian personal pronouns.
| number | first person | second person | reflexive | third person | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | singular masculine | singular feminine | singular neuter | ||
| nominative | jig, jeg, jög | du, döu | hɑnn, hånn | hu, ho, hon | he | |
| accusative | meg | deg | seg | hana, na, a, hänner | he, ne, e | |
| dative | meg (me) | deg (de) | seg (se) | hönöm, hano, håno | hannar, hänner, hennar, henar, nar | dy, dyij, di |
| genitive | min, myin | din, dyin | sin, syin | hɑnʃ, hansches, hånsch | hannars, hännars, hennars, henars | diss |
| case | plural | plural masculine | plural feminine | plural neuter | ||
| nominative | ve | ge, je, ji | de, di, dȯm, dem, döm | |||
| accusative | ass, åss | ge, je, ji | seg | |||
| dative | ass, åss | gerom, irom | seg (se) | dȯm, dem, döm, do | ||
| genitive | vor, wȯhn, våor, vånn, voden | jera, jänn, jern, iden, jedar, idar | sin, syin | dern, dera, däris, daires | dera, däris, daires | derä |