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

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: mĕg, IPA(key): /mɛɡ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1 edit

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

Noun edit

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)

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Etymology 2 edit

Unknown

Noun edit

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.

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Etymology 3 edit

Clipping of nutmeg.

Noun edit

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial, soccer) a nutmeg

Verb edit

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 edit

Noun edit

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial) A megalodon.

Anagrams edit

Esperanto edit

Esperanto cardinal numbers
1,000,000
    Cardinal : meg
    Ordinal : mega

Etymology edit

Back-formation from mega-.

Numeral edit

meg

  1. (neologism, rare) million, 106

Synonyms edit

Faroese edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

meg sg

  1. me, accusative singular of eg (I)

Declension edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Conjunction edit

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 edit

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 edit

Compound words

References edit

Further reading edit

  • 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 edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun edit

meg

  1. we; nominative plural of minā

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

meg

  1. objective case of jeg: me

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References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

meg

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

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Old Swedish edit

Pronoun edit

meg

  1. Alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

Romansch edit

Alternative forms edit

  • matg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
  • mai (Vallader)

Etymology edit

From Latin (mensis) Māius (of May).

Proper noun edit

meg m

  1. (Puter) May