meg

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

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĕg, IPA(key): /mɛɡ/
  • (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 of RAM." (megabytes)
    (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)
    (heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

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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:
      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-.

Numeral

meg

  1. (neologism, rare) million, 106

Synonyms

Faroese

Pronunciation

Pronoun

meg sg

  1. me, accusative singular of eg (I)

Declension

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.

Pronunciation

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 ; i.e., I will not complete eating it.

Derived terms

Compound words

References

Further reading

  • meg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: 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

Pronoun

meg

  1. objective case of jeg: me

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References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

meg

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

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Old Swedish

Pronoun

meg

  1. Alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • matg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
  • mai (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin (mensis) Māius (of May).

Proper noun

meg m

  1. (Puter) May