meá

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From earlier meadh, from Old Irish med,[1] 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

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Pronunciation

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The Caighdeán Oifigiúil spelling meá (with a long vowel) conflates Classical meadh and meadhadh. Despite the conflated standardised spelling meá, the pronunciation of meadh and meadhadh remain separate in all dialects with the occasional exception of Conamara where Classical -eadh/-eagh is more commonly pronounced with long /ɑː/ than short /æ(h)/ (both pronunciations are found),[2] whereas Conamara -eadh-/-eagh- before a vowel has generally become long /ɑː/.

Noun

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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
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish mid, from Proto-Celtic *medu (wine), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (honey; honey wine). Cognate with Old English medu.

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Noun

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meá f (genitive singular meá, nominative plural meánna)

  1. mead
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Mutation

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “med”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ó Curnáin, Brian (2007) The Irish of Iorras Aithneach County Galway, volume I, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page 163
  3. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 319, page 112
  4. ^ Ó Buachalla, Breandán (2017) Cnuasach Chléire, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page 203
  5. ^ Sheehan, Michael (1944) Sean-chaint na nDéise. The idiom of living Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page 92
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 297, page 105

Further reading

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Spanish

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Verb

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meá

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mear