meán

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See also: mean and meán-

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

meán m (plural meáns)

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

References

  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “meao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “mean” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive 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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative meán meáin
Vocative a mheáin a mheána
Genitive meáin meán
Dative meán meáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an meán na meáin
Genitive an mheáin na meán
Dative leis an meán

don mheán

leis na meáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meán mheán not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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