meg

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

English

Pronunciation
  • enPR: mĕg, IPA(key): /mɛɡ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

Noun

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  1. (colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.
    (computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs [or meg] of RAM." (megabytes)
    (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)
    (heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

See also

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

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  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.

Noun

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial) A megalodon.

Anagrams

Esperanto

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology

Back-formation from mega-.

Numeral

meg

  1. (neologism, rare) million, 106

Synonyms

Faroese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [meː]
  • Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

meg sg

  1. me, accusative singular of eg (“I”)

Declension
Faroese personal pronouns
Personal pronouns (Persónsfornøvn)
Singular (eintal) 1st person 2nd person 3rd person masc. 3rd person fem. 3rd person neut.
Nominative (hvørfall) eg, jeg tú hann hon tað
Accusative (hvønnfall) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), mjeg teg, tjeg hana
Dative (hvørjumfall) mær tær honum henni tí
Genitive (hvørsfall) mín tín hansara, hans† hennara, hennar† tess
Plural (fleirtal) 1st person 2nd person 3rd person masc. 3rd person fem. 3rd person neut.
Nominative (hvørfall) vit tit teir tær tey
Accusative (hvønnfall) okkum tykkum
Dative (hvørjumfall) teimum, teim†
Genitive (hvørsfall) okkara tykkara teirra

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.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛɡ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

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 [up]; i.e., I will not complete eating it.

Derived terms
Compound words

References
  1. Starostin's Uralic Database, Entry #552

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
  • IPA(key): /mæɪ̯/
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

meg

  1. objective case of jeg: me

See also
    Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
feminine masculine neuter plural
Singular First– jeg Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) mi min mitt mine
Second general du deg di din ditt dine
formal (rare) De Dem Deres
Third feminine (person) hun henne hennes
masculine (person) han ham / han hans
feminine (noun) den dens
masculine (noun)
neuter (noun) det dets
reflexive – seg si sin sitt sine
Plural First– vi oss vår vårt våre
Second general dere deres
formal (very rare) De Dem Deres
Third general de dem deres
reflexive – seg si sin sitt sine

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /meːɡ/

Pronoun

meg

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

See also
Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns
person first person second person reflexive third person
case singular singular masculine singular feminine singular neuter
nominative eg, je1 du han ho det, dat2
accusative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) deg seg han, honom2 ho, henne2 det, dat2
dative2 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) deg seg honom henne di2
genitive min din sin hans hennar, hennes1 dess3
case plural
nominative me, vi de, dokker dei
accusative oss, okk dykk, dokker seg dei, deim2
dative oss, okk dykk, dokker seg deim2
genitive vår, okkar dykkar, dokkar sin deira, deires1
1Obsolete. 2Landsmål. 3Rare or literary. Cursive forms unofficial today.


References

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
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