meg

See also: Meg, MEG, még, mēg, -meg, and meg-

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Mea with g as a placeholder.

Symbol

meg

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mea.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Mea terms

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĕg, IPA(key): /mɛɡ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

Noun

meg (plural megs or meg)

  1. (colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.
    (computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs [or meg] of RAM." (megabytes)
    (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)
    (heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

See also

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

meg (plural megs or meg)

  1. (obsolete, US, slang) a dollar
    • 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post[1]:
      He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.

Further reading

Etymology 3

Clipping of nutmeg.

Noun

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial, soccer) a nutmeg

Verb

meg (third-person singular simple present megs, present participle megging, simple past and past participle megged)

  1. (colloquial, soccer, transitive) To nutmeg an opponent.

Etymology 4

Noun

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial) A megalodon.

Anagrams

Esperanto

Esperanto cardinal numbers
1,000,000
    Cardinal : meg
    Ordinal : mega

Etymology

Back-formation from mega-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meɡ/
  • Rhymes: -eɡ
  • Hyphenation: meg

Numeral

meg

  1. (neologism, rare) million, 106

Synonyms

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [meː]
  • Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

meg sg

  1. me, accusative singular of eg (I)

Declension

Faroese personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person eg, jeg meg, mjeg mær mín
2nd person teg, tjeg tær tín
3rd person m hann honum hansara, hans
f hon hana henni hennara, hennar
n tað tess
plural 1st person vit okkum okkara
2nd person tit tykkum tykkara
3rd person m teir teimum, teim teirra
f tær
n tey

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *müŋä (rear, beyond). For a similar semantic development, see Finnish cognate myös (also, too). Of the same origin as mögött, mögé, and mögül.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛɡ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Conjunction

meg

  1. and
    Synonyms: és, s
    Csak te meg én!Only you and me!
  2. plus (sum of the previous one and the following one)
    Három meg egy egyenlő néggyel.Three plus one equals four.

Usage notes

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with meg- (usually expressing completion), occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (they could have seen it, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see meg-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

  • Ezt nem eszem meg!I will not eat this [up]; i.e., I will not complete eating it.

Derived terms

Compound words

References

Further reading

  • meg 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.

Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun

meg

  1. we; nominative plural of minā

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæɪ̯/
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

meg

  1. objective case of jeg: me

See also

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːɡ/

Pronoun

meg

  1. objective case of eg: me (direct object of a verb)

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns
first person second person reflexive third person
masculine feminine neuter
singular nominative eg, je1 du han ho det, dat2
accusative meg deg seg han, honom2 ho, henne2 det, dat2
dative2 meg deg seg honom henne di2
genitive min din sin hans hennar, hennes1 dess3
plural nominative me, vi de, dokker dei
accusative oss, okk dykk, dokker seg dei, deim2
dative oss, okk dykk, dokker seg deim2
genitive vår, okkar dykkar, dokkar sin deira, deires1

1Obsolete. 2Landsmål. 3Rare or literary. Italic forms unofficial today.

References

Old Swedish

Pronoun

meg

  1. alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin Maius.

Proper noun

meg m

  1. (Puter) May