meán
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese meão, from Latin mediānus. Doublet of mediano.
Pronunciation
Noun
meán m (plural meáns)
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish medón, from Latin mediānus. Cognate with English mean. Compare Scottish Gaelic meadhan.
Adjective
meán (genitive singular masculine meáin, genitive singular feminine meáine, plural meána, comparative meáine)
Declension
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
meán m (genitive singular meáin, nominative plural meáin)
Declension
Declension of meán
Derived terms
- 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
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “medón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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