mea

mea

1. tongue

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• a mea
• (a) nja

From Latin mea. Compare Romanian mea.

mea f (masculine meu, feminine plural meali or meale, masculine plural mei)

1. my; first-person feminine singular possessive pronoun

Always preceded by 'a'- "a mea".

• (a) ta/(a) tauã
• (a) ljei
• (a) noastrã
• (a) voastrã
• (a) lor

Uncertain, probably from an earlier form *mena. Further derivation has two possibilities: either from Spanish mena (“ore”); or from Proto-Basque *bena, from Latin vēnam, accusative singular of vēna (“vein”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mea/ [me.a]
• Rhymes: -ea, -a
• Hyphenation: me‧a

mea inan

1. mineral
2. ore

• “mea”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “mea”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin media, from medius.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeɐ]

mea f (plural meas)

1. skein (a quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel)

   Synonyms: cadeixa, madeixa, meada

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.a/, [ˈmɛ.jə]

From Proto-Polynesian *meqa (cognate with Maori mea and Tongan meʻa (“thing, matter, object”))^[1][2]

mea

1. thing, object
2. person

From Proto-Polynesian *mea (compare with mea and Tongan mea)^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *meʀaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *meʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-iʀaq (see Malay merah, Iban mirah).^[2][3]

mea

1. (stative) reddish (as water full of red soil)

From me +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmea/

mea

1. my, belonging to me.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: mè‧a

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mea

1. feminine singular of meo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mea

1. inflection of meare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• -ame, Ema, Maè

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈme.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.a]

mea

1. inflection of meus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

meā

1. ablative feminine singular of meus

• tuus
• suus

From Portuguese meia.

mea

1. sock, stocking

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#m

From Proto-Polynesian *meqa (cognate with Tongan meʻa (“thing, matter, object”))^[1][2]

mea

1. thing

From Proto-Polynesian *mea from Proto-Oceanic *meʀaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *meʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-iʀaq (compare with Malay merah, Iban mirah).^[1][2]

mea

1. red, reddish

   Synonyms: whero, kura

Colors in Maori · ngā tae (layout · text)

tea, mā	kiwikiwi	pango
mea, kura, whero	karaka; parauri	kōwhai, renga
	kāriki, kākāriki	kārikiuri
	kikorangi	kahurangi
tūāuri	waiporoporo	māwhero

From English mayor

mea

1. mayor

   Synonym: koromatua

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “mea”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 182-3
• “mea” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /²meːɑ/

mea

1. (pre-1959) alternative form of medan

Inherited from Latin mea, feminine of meus.

• IPA^(key): [me̯a]

• Audio:

  (file)

mea

1. feminine singular of meu

mea f (possessive pronouns)

1. (preceded by "a") mine

• IPA^(key): /ˈmea/

mea

1. feminine singular of meu

mea

1. feminine singular of meu

mea

1. inflection of mear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-mea (infinitive kumea)

1. to grow
2. to sprout

Conjugation of -mea
Positive present -namea Subjunctive -mee Negative -mei Imperative singular mea
Infinitives
Positive kumea Negative kutomea
Imperatives
Singular mea Plural meeni
Tensed forms
Habitual humea Positive past positive subject concord + -limea Negative past negative subject concord + -kumea
Positive present (positive subject concord + -namea) Singular Plural 1st person ninamea/namea tunamea 2nd person unamea mnamea 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anamea wanamea other classes positive subject concord + -namea
Negative present (negative subject concord + -mei) Singular Plural 1st person simei hatumei 2nd person humei hammei 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hamei hawamei other classes negative subject concord + -mei
Positive future positive subject concord + -tamea Negative future negative subject concord + -tamea
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -mee) Singular Plural 1st person nimee tumee 2nd person umee mmee 3rd person m-wa(I/II) amee wamee other classes positive subject concord + -mee
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -simee Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngemea Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singemea Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalimea Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalimea
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -amea) Singular Plural 1st person namea twamea 2nd person wamea mwamea 3rd person m-wa(I/II) amea wamea m-mi(III/IV) wamea yamea ji-ma(V/VI) lamea yamea ki-vi(VII/VIII) chamea vyamea n(IX/X) yamea zamea u(XI) wamea see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwamea pa(XVI) pamea mu(XVIII) mwamea
Perfect positive subject concord + -memea "Already" positive subject concord + -meshamea "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jamea "If/When" positive subject concord + -kimea "If not" positive subject concord + -sipomea Consecutive kamea / positive subject concord + -kamea Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kamee
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nimea -tumea 2nd person -kumea -wamea/-kumeeni/-wameeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mmea -wamea m-mi(III/IV) -umea -imea ji-ma(V/VI) -limea -yamea ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kimea -vimea n(IX/X) -imea -zimea u(XI) -umea see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kumea pa(XVI) -pamea mu(XVIII) -mumea Reflexive -jimea
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -mea- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -meaye -meao m-mi(III/IV) -meao -meayo ji-ma(V/VI) -mealo -meayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -meacho -meavyo n(IX/X) -meayo -meazo u(XI) -meao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -meako pa(XVI) -meapo mu(XVIII) -meamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -mea) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yemea -omea m-mi(III/IV) -omea -yomea ji-ma(V/VI) -lomea -yomea ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chomea -vyomea n(IX/X) -yomea -zomea u(XI) -omea see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -komea pa(XVI) -pomea mu(XVIII) -momea
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Nominal derivations:
  • mmea (“plant”)

mea

1. thing

• Instead of saying "noun is adjective" one says "noun is adjective mea" (using VSO word order, though).

From Proto-Polynesian *meqa. Cognates include Hawaiian mea and Samoan mea.

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.a]
• Hyphenation: me‧a

mea

1. thing
   • 1948, Tūlāfono fakavae a Tokelau [Constitution of Tokelau]‎^[2], page 1:

     Ko te fakavae tenei e matea i nā nuku ma kafai ona tagata e faifaimea fakatahi, ma nonofo fakatahi i te filemu ma te fiafia.

     This foundation is recognised in the villages and if its people repeatedly do things together, and [if] they live together in peace and happiness.

2. (euphemistic) genitalia; junk

• In Tokelauan, mea may additionally be translated as "reason", "matter", "case", "tool", "spot" or any other range of indefinite designation for a mentioned object:

  I te mea tēnei. ― In this spot. (literally, “At this thing here.”)

  Tēnā te mea na hau e au. ― This is the reason I came. (literally, “This is the thing (why) I came.”)

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 232