meg

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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĕg, IPA^(key): /mɛɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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 [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

• mil

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^[1]:

     He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.

Further reading

• “meg”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

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

• EGM, EMG, GEM, Gem, MGE, gem

Esperanto

Esperanto cardinal numbers

	1,000,000
Cardinal : meg     Ordinal : mega

Etymology

Back-formation of mega-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meɡ]
• Hyphenation: meg

Numeral

meg

1. (neologism, rare) million, 10⁶

Synonyms

• miliono

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meː]
• Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

meg sg

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

Declension

Faroese personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		eg, jeg	meg, mjeg	mær	mín
	2nd person		tú	teg, tjeg	tær	tín
	3rd person	m	hann		honum	hansara, hans†
		f	hon	hana	henni	hennara, hennar†
		n	tað		tí	tess
plural	1st person		vit	okkum		okkara
	2nd person		tit	tykkum		tykkara
	3rd person	m	teir		teimum, teim†	teirra
		f	tær
		n	tey

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡ]

• Audio:

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• 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):

• megannyi

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

• (Courland) mēg

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:

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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	meg	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

• “meg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “meg” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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

		first person	second person	reflexive	third person
					masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	nominative	eg, je1	du	—	han	ho	det, dat2
	accusative	meg	deg	seg	han, honom2	ho, henne2	det, dat2
	dative2	meg	deg	seg	honom	henne	di2
	genitive	min	din	sin	hans	hennar, hennes1	dess3
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. Italic forms unofficial today.

References

• “meg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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