medi

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See also: Medi, medí, medį, međi, and mēḑi

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medium.

Pronunciation

Noun

medi m (plural medis)

  1. medium (substance through which another passes)
  2. environment
    Synonym: entorn
  3. medium (person who communicates with ghosts)

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Verb

medi

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of medir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese medo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu medu.

Verb

medi

  1. to fear

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.di/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdi
  • Hyphenation: mè‧di

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

medi m pl

  1. masculine plural of medio

Noun

medi m pl

  1. plural of medio

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

medi

  1. inflection of mediare:
    1. second-person singular present
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

medi m pl

  1. masculine plural of medo

Noun

medi m pl

  1. plural of medo

Anagrams

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Noun

mẽdi

  1. vocative singular of medis

Makonde

Noun

medi

  1. water

References

  • Edward Steere, Collections for a handbook of the Makonde language (1876)
  • African Languages: Langues Africaines, volume 5 (1979), page 144

Middle English

Verb

medi

  1. Alternative form of meden

Portuguese

Verb

medi

  1. inflection of medir:
    1. first-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

medi f

  1. genitive/dative/locative singular of meď

Slovene

Verb

mẹ́di or médi

  1. second-person singular imperative of mesti

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh medel, from Proto-Brythonic *medel, from Proto-Celtic *meteti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.

See also Cornish mysi, Breton medi; also English meadow, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).

Pronunciation

Verb

medi (first-person singular present medaf)

  1. to reap
    • c. 1800, attributed to Wil Hopcyn, "Bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn":
      Myfi’n bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn
      Ac arall yn ei fedi.
      I’m watching the white wheat
      And someone else is reaping it.

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future medaf medi med, meda medwn medwch medant medir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional 		medwn medit medai medem medech medent medid
preterite medais medaist medodd medasom medasoch medasant medwyd
pluperfect medaswn medasit medasai medasem medasech medasent medasid, medesid
present subjunctive medwyf medych medo medom medoch medont meder
imperative — med, meda meded medwn medwch medent meder
verbal noun medi
verbal adjectives mededig
medadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms singular plural
first second third first second third
future meda i, medaf i medi di medith o/e/hi, mediff e/hi medwn ni medwch chi medan nhw
conditional medwn i, medswn i medet ti, medset ti medai fo/fe/hi, medsai fo/fe/hi meden ni, medsen ni medech chi, medsech chi meden nhw, medsen nhw
preterite medais i, medes i medaist ti, medest ti medodd o/e/hi medon ni medoch chi medon nhw
imperative — meda — — medwch —
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

  • Medi (“September”)

Related terms

  • medel (“reaping party, work group”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
medi fedi unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “medi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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