meá

See also: mea, meã, and me'a

Irish

Alternative forms

• meadh (superseded)
• meath

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

Declension of meá

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative meá meánna Vocative a mheá a mheánna Genitive meá meánna Dative meá meánna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an mheá na meánna Genitive na meá na meánna Dative leis an meá don mheá leis na meánna

Derived terms

• cruinnmheá f (“precision balance”)
• droichead meáite (“weighbridge”)
• meá Rómhánach (“Roman balance, steel-yard, weigh-beam”)
• micrimheá f (“microbalance”)

 

Related terms

• meas

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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “med”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “meá”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “meá”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Spanish

Verb

meá

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