meá
See also: mea, meã, and me'a
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʲaː/
Etymology 1
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.
Alternative forms
- meadh (superseded)
- meath
Noun
meá f (genitive singular as substantive meá, genitive as verbal noun meáite, nominative plural meánna)
- A scale, measure
- weights
- A balance
- verbal noun of meáigh
Declension
Declension of meá
Fourth declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
|
Derived terms
- cruinnmheá f (“precision balance”)
- droichead meáite (“weighbridge”)
- meá Rómhánach (“Roman balance, steel-yard, weigh-beam”)
- micrimheá f (“microbalance”)
Related terms
- meas
Etymology 2
From Old Irish mid, from Proto-Celtic *medu (“wine”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Old English medu.
Alternative forms
- miodh (obsolete)
- meadh (superseded)
Noun
meá f (genitive singular meá, nominative plural meánna)
- mead.
Declension
Declension of meá
Fourth declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
|
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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “meá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “med”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- 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
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mear