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/ [me.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: me‧a

mea inan

1. mineral
2. ore

• “mea”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “mea”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.a/, [ˈmɛ.jə]

From Proto-Polynesian *meqa (cognate with Maori mea and Tongan meʻa (“thing, matter, object”))^[1][2]

mea

1. thing, object
2. person

From Proto-Polynesian *mea (compare with mea and Tongan mea)^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *meʀaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *meʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-iʀaq (see Malay merah, Iban mirah).^[2][3]

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 Latin) 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

From Portuguese meia.

mea

1. sock, stocking

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#m

From Proto-Polynesian *meqa (cognate with Tongan meʻa (“thing, matter, object”))^[1][2]

mea

1. thing

From Proto-Polynesian *mea from Proto-Oceanic *meʀaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *meʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ma-iʀaq (compare with Malay merah, Iban mirah).^[1][2]

mea

1. red, reddish

   Synonyms: whero, kura

From English mayor

mea

1. mayor

   Synonym: koromatua

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “mea”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 182-3
• “mea” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /²meːɑ/

mea

1. (pre-1959) alternative form of medan

Inherited from Latin mea, feminine of meus.

• IPA^(key): [me̯a]

• Audio:

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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

• Audio (Kenya):

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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]‎^[2], 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 [if] 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^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 232