meana

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish menad. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic minidh and Manx mennee.

Pronunciation

Noun

meana m (genitive singular meana, nominative plural meanaí)

  1. awl, bodkin (pointed tool)

Declension

Declension of meana (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative meana meanaí
vocative a mheana a mheanaí
genitive meana meanaí
dative meana meanaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an meana na meanaí
genitive an mheana na meanaí
dative leis an meana
don mheana 		leis na meanaí

Descendants

  • → Yola: managh

Mutation

Mutated forms of meana
radical lenition eclipsis
meana mheana 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. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46

Further reading

Ladino

Etymology

From Turkish meyhane, from Persian میخانه (meyxâne), compound of Persian می (may, “wine”) and Persian خانه (xâne, “house”).

Noun

meana f

  1. cabaret, tavern

Further reading

  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “meaná, meané”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 353
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