meder

See also: Meder

Cornish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Welsh medr (“skill”).

Noun

meder m (plural medrow)

1. aim

   Synonyms: amkan, medras

Derived terms

• medra (“aim”, verb)

Verb

meder

1. inflection of medra:
   1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutation of meder

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
meder	veder	unchanged	unchanged	feder, veder*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛdɛr]
• Hyphenation: me‧der
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

meder (plural medrek)

1. bed, channel, course (a channel that a flowing body of water follows; e.g. the bottom earthen part of a river)
2. (figuratively, formal) direction, characteristics

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	meder	medrek
accusative	medret	medreket
dative	medernek	medreknek
instrumental	mederrel	medrekkel
causal-final	mederért	medrekért
translative	mederré	medrekké
terminative	mederig	medrekig
essive-formal	mederként	medrekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mederben	medrekben
superessive	medren	medreken
adessive	medernél	medreknél
illative	mederbe	medrekbe
sublative	mederre	medrekre
allative	mederhez	medrekhez
elative	mederből	medrekből
delative	mederről	medrekről
ablative	medertől	medrektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	mederé	medreké
non-attributive possessive – plural	mederéi	medrekéi

Possessive forms of meder

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	medrem	medreim
2nd person sing.	medred	medreid
3rd person sing.	medre	medrei
1st person plural	medrünk	medreink
2nd person plural	medretek	medreitek
3rd person plural	medrük	medreik

Derived terms

• fogmeder
• folyómeder

Further reading

• meder in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• meder in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos).

Noun

meder m (definite singular mederen, indefinite plural medere, definite plural mederne)

1. Mede (an inhabitant of Media)

See also

• medar (Nynorsk)

References

• “meder” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.der/
• Rhymes: -eː.der

Noun

mēder

1. genitive/dative singular of mōdor

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from Latin Mēdus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos). Cognate of German Meder, French mède.

Noun

meder c

1. Mede

Declension

Declension of meder

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	meder	meders
	definite	medern	mederns
plural	indefinite	meder	meders
	definite	mederna	medernas

References

• “meder”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)