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Meg
Meg
English
Proper noun
Meg
- A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
- 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies:
- Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
- And tall as Amazon:
- An old red blanket cloak she wore,
- A chip-hat had she on.
- 1985 E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, page 208
- My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.
- 'What kind of name is that,' she said.
- 'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'
- 'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'
- 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies:
Anagrams
meg
meg
English
Noun
meg (plural megs)
- (slang) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-, such as megahertz
- (computing) - My new computer has over 500 megs of RAM. = megabyte
- (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg" = megahertz
- (heating) - "a 250 meg gas heater" = megajoules
Usage notes
- Mostly encountered in speech, less often in writing.
See also
Anagrams
Esperanto
| 1,000,000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : meg Ordinal : mega | ||
Etymology
Back-formation from mega-.
Numeral
meg
- (neologism, rare) million, 106
Synonyms
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [meː]
Pronoun
meg sg
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) | meg, 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛɡ]
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]
Conjunction
meg
- and
- plus (sum of the previous one and the following one)
- Három meg egy egyenlő néggyel. ― Three plus one equals four.
See also
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːɡ/ (example of pronunciation)
Pronoun
meg
See also
| Nominative | Objective case | Genitive/Possessive pronoun | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| First person | eg, je4 | meg | min m |
| Second person | du | deg | din m |
| Third person m | han | han, honom3 | hans |
| Third person f | ho | ho, henne | hennar, hennes4 |
| Third person n | det, dat1 | det, dat1 | dess 2 |
| Plural | |||
| First person | me, vi | oss | vår m |
| Second person | de, dokker | dykk, dokker | dykkar, dokkar |
| Third person | dei | dei, deim3 | deira, deires4 |
| Notes | |||
| 1Never part of official Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily used before Landsmål received an official written norm. | |||
| 2Rare or literary | |||
| 3Traditional forms that are no longer part of the official written norm. Now primarily used in Høgnorsk texts. | |||
| 4No longer part of the official written norm. These non-traditional forms were added to the norm to either approach the the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects. | |||
References
- “meg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.