meá

The Caighdeán Oifigiúil spelling meá (with a long vowel) conflates Classical meadh and meadhadh. Despite the conflated standardised spelling meá, the pronunciation of meadh and meadhadh remain separate in all dialects with the occasional exception of Conamara where Classical -eadh/-eagh is more commonly pronounced with long [ɑː] than short [æ(h)] (both pronunciations are found)[1], whereas Conamara -eadh-/-eagh- before a vowel has generally become long [ɑː].

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mʲæh/ (corresponding to meadh)
  • (Cork) IPA^(key): /mʲæh/ (corresponding to meadh)
    • (West Muskerry) IPA^(key): /mʲæh/[2] (corresponding to meadh) ,
    • (Carberry West: Cape Clear) IPA^(key): /mʲæh/[3] (corresponding to meadh)
  • (Waterford) IPA^(key): /mʲæ(h)/[4] (corresponding to meadh)

• (Connacht)
  • (Galway)
    • (Iorras Aithneach): IPA^(key): /mʲæh/[5] (corresponding to meadh), IPA^(key): /mʲɑː/[6] (corresponding to meadh, regularly becoming meá)
• (Ulster)
  • (Donegal: Meenawania[7]) IPA^(key): /mʲæh/ (corresponding to meadh)

A Caighdeán Oifigiúil spelling of Classical Gaelic meadh, from Old Irish med, from Proto-Celtic *medā, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure, consider”). Akin to meas.

Cognate with Old English metan, Latin modius, and Ancient Greek μέδιμνος (médimnos, “medimnus”). Compare Scottish Gaelic meidh.

• meadh (superseded)
• meath

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1. A scale, measure
2. weights
3. A balance
4. verbal noun of meáigh

• meas

From Old Irish mid, from Proto-Celtic *medu (“wine”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Old English medu.

• miodh (obsolete)
• meadh (superseded)

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1. mead

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• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “meá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “med”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “meá” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “meá” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

meá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of mear