meudía

Asturian

Alternative forms

• mediudía
• mieudía, miudía, medudía, megodía, megodíe, meyudía, merudía, midiudía (dialectal)

Etymology

From meu- +‎ día.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meu̯ˈdia/ [møuˈð̞i.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: meu‧dí‧a

Noun

meudía m (plural meudíes)

1. midday, noon
   • c. 1891, Xuan Acebal, La vida del aldeanu (poem):

     Canta cuando pel sol del mediudia
     Coles mesories les espigues piesca

     He sings during the noon sun as he
     Fishes the spikes with the sickle

2. afternoon

   pal meudía

   in the afternoon

Further reading

• “meudía”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “meudía”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN