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meas

meas

See also: meás, meãs, and meaş

English

Abbreviation

meas

  1. (knitting) measures
    • 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics (page 106)
      When piece meas 2½" (6.5 cm) on RS, knit until 3 sts rem, k2tog, k1.

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mess, from Proto-Celtic *messus, from Proto-Indo-European *med-. Akin to meá.

Noun

meas m (genitive singular measa, nominative plural measanna)

  1. verbal noun of meas
  2. An opinion
  3. An evaluation, judgment, guess, estimate
  4. esteem, admiration, respect
    meas agam uirthi.
    I have respect for her.
Declension
Derived terms

Verb

meas (present analytic measann, future analytic measfaidh, verbal noun meas, past participle measta)

  1. to evaluate, consider, judge
  2. to estimate, guess, anticipate
  3. to esteem, admire
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mess, from Proto-Celtic *messus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-. Cognate with Old English mete (English meat); Latin madeō (I am wet), Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós, breast).

Noun

meas m (genitive singular measa, nominative plural measa)

  1. fruit
  2. a nut
  3. produce
Declension
Synonyms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meas mheas unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Latin

Pronunciation

Pronoun

meās

  1. feminine accusative plural of meus

Verb

meās

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of meō

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

meas m (genitive singular measa, plural measan)

  1. respect
    Tha meas againn air Seumas. ― We respect James.
  2. fruit
    Dè am meas as fheàrr leat? ― What fruit so you prefer?
    Is grinn am meas an t-Samhraidh. ― Sweet is the fruit of Summer.

Derived terms

Verb

meas (past mheas, future measaidh, verbal noun measadh, past participle measte)

  1. think, reckon, consider
  2. respect, esteem
  3. evaluate, assess

Derived terms

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9

Spanish

Verb

meas

  1. Informal second-person singular () present indicative form of mear.