meán
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese meão, from Latin mediānus. Doublet of mediano.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
meán m (plural meáns)
References[edit]
- “meao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “meao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “mean” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish medón, from Latin mediānus. Cognate with English mean. Compare Scottish Gaelic meadhan.
Adjective[edit]
meán (genitive singular masculine meáin, genitive singular feminine meáine, plural meána, comparative meáine)
Declension[edit]
Declension of meán
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | meán | mheán | meána; mheána² | |
Vocative | mheáin | meána | ||
Genitive | meáne | meána | meán | |
Dative | meán; mheán¹ |
mheán; mheáin (archaic) |
meána; mheána² | |
Comparative | níos meáne | |||
Superlative | is meáne |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun[edit]
meán m (genitive singular meáin, nominative plural meáin)
Declension[edit]
Declension of meán
Derived terms[edit]
- Meán Fómhair m (“September”, literally “middle of autumn”)
- meán lae m (“midday”)
- meán oíche m (“midnight”)
- Mí Mheáin an tSamhraidh f (“June”, literally “Midsummer Month”)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
meán | mheán | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- "meán" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “medón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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