mea

mea

1. tongue

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• a mea
• (a) nja

From Latin mea. Compare Romanian mea.

mea f (masculine meu, feminine plural meali or meale, masculine plural mei)

1. my; first-person feminine singular possessive pronoun

Always preceded by 'a'- "a mea".

• (a) ta/(a) tauã
• (a) ljei
• (a) noastrã
• (a) voastrã
• (a) lor

Uncertain, probably from an earlier form *mena. Further derivation has two possibilities: either from Spanish mena (“ore”); or from Proto-Basque *bena, from Latin vēnam, accusative singular of vēna (“vein”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /mea/, [me̞.a]

mea inan

1. mineral
2. ore

• "mea" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “mea” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin media, from medius.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeɐ]

mea f (plural meas)

1. skein (a quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel)

   Synonyms: cadeixa, madeixa, meada

• “meas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmea/, [ˈmɛə]

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mea

1. thing, object
2. person

From Proto-Polynesian *mea, from Proto-Oceanic *meʀaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *meʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-iʀaq.

mea

1. (stative) reddish (as water full of red soil)

From me +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmea/

mea

1. my, belonging to me.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: mè‧a

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mea

1. feminine singular of meo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mea

1. inflection of meare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• -ame, Ema, Maè

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.a/, [ˈmeä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.a/, [ˈmɛːä]

mea

1. inflection of meus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

meā

1. ablative feminine singular of meus

• tuus
• suus

mea

1. thing

• IPA^(key): /²meːɑ/

mea

1. (pre-1959) alternative form of medan

Inherited from Latin mea, feminine of meus.

• IPA^(key): [me̯a]

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mea

1. feminine singular of meu

mea f (possessive pronouns)

1. (preceded by "a") mine

• IPA^(key): /ˈmea/

mea

1. feminine singular of meu

mea

1. feminine singular of meu

mea

1. inflection of mear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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-mea (infinitive kumea)

1. to grow

mea

1. thing

• Instead of saying "noun is adjective" one says "noun is adjective mea" (using VSO word order, though).

From Proto-Polynesian *meqa. Cognates include Hawaiian mea and Samoan mea.

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.a]
• Hyphenation: me‧a

mea

1. thing
   • 1948, Tūlāfono fakavae a Tokelau [Constitution of Tokelau]‎, page 1:

     Ko te fakavae tenei e matea i nā nuku ma kafai ona tagata e faifaimea fakatahi, ma nonofo fakatahi i te filemu ma te fiafia.

     This foundation is recognised in the villages and if its people repeatedly do things together, and they live together in peace and happiness.

2. (euphemistic) genitalia; junk

• In Tokelauan, mea may additionally be translated as "reason", "matter", "case", "tool", "spot" or any other range of indefinite designation for a mentioned object:

  I te mea tēnei. ― In this spot. (literally, “At this thing here.”)

  Tēnā te mea na hau e au. ― This is the reason I came. (literally, “This is the thing (why) I came.”)

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 232