meán

See also: mean and meán-

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese meão, from Latin mediānus. Doublet of mediano.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈaŋ/

Noun

meán m (plural meáns)

  1. chain or strap that connects both rigid parts of a flail
    Synonyms: cedoiro, loro

References

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish medón, from Latin mediānus.[2] Cognate with English mean. Compare Scottish Gaelic meadhan.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /mʲɑːn̪ˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /mʲɑːnˠ/, /mʲɑːn̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /mʲaːnˠ/, /mʲaːn̪ˠ/[3]

Adjective

meán (genitive singular masculine meáin, genitive singular feminine meáine, plural meána, comparative meáine)

  1. mid, central
  2. middle
  3. average

Declension

Declension of meán
Positive singular plural
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)

  1. middle
  2. (mathematics) mean
  3. medium
  4. average
  5. (anatomy) middle, waist
  6. middle zone

Declension

Declension of meán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative meán meáin
vocative a mheáin a mheána
genitive meáin meán
dative meán meáin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an meán na meáin
genitive an mheáin na meán
dative leis an meán
don mheán 		leis na meáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of meán
radical lenition eclipsis
meán mheán not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “meán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “medón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 297, page 105

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