different between teg vs meg

English

Etymology

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

teg (plural tegs)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

2. (Britain, dialect, dated) a doe in its second year

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• GTE, Get, TGE, get

Cornish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Numeral

teg

1. Hard mutation of deg.
2. Mixed mutation of deg.

Etymology 2

From the same source as Welsh teg (“fair, pretty”)

Adjective

teg

1. pretty, attractive

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: te

Pronoun

teg sg

1. accusative singular of tú (“you”)

Declension

Synonyms

• tjeg (dialectal)

Derived terms

• eg elski teg (“I love you”)

Hupdë

Noun

teg

1. tree

References

• 1979, Barbara J. Moore, Gail L. Franklin, Mary L. Daniel (translator), Breves notícias da língua maku-hupda, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 11.

Livonian

Pronoun

teg

1. nominative plural of sin?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tèg

1. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of tegja

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/

Noun

teg n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige)

1. Alternative form of tech

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

t?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. weight (weightlifting)
2. weight (block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia) úteg

Slavomolisano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

teg m

1. work, employment
   • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:

Declension

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish tegher, from Old Norse teigr.

Noun

teg c

1. a small farm field, a part of a larger field

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

teg

1. past tense of tiga.

Anagrams

• get

Welsh

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish teg; further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/

Adjective

teg (feminine singular teg, plural teg, equative teced, comparative tecach, superlative tecaf)

1. fair (pretty, attractive)
2. fair, just
3. impartial, unbiased

   Antonym: annheg

Derived terms

• chwarae teg

Mutation

References

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?g, IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

Noun

meg (plural megs)

1. (colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.

   (computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs 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

Further reading

• meg at Green's Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• EGM, EMG, GEM, Gem, MGE, gem

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from mega-.

Numeral

meg

1. (neologism, rare) million, 10⁶

Synonyms

• miliono

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [me?]
• Rhymes: -e?

Pronoun

meg sg

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

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mü?ä (“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): [?m??]
• Rhymes: -??

Conjunction

meg

1. and

   Synonyms: és, s

2. plus (sum of the previous one and the following one)

Derived terms

• megannyi

See also

• meg- (verbal prefix, usually expressing completion; separated from the main verb if the latter doesn't follow the prefix directly)

References

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) m?g

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun

meg

1. we; nominative plural of min?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ??/

Pronoun

meg

1. objective case of jeg: me

See also

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me??/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

meg

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

See also

References

• “meg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin (mensis) M?ius (“of May”).

Proper noun

meg m

1. (Puter) May

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), accusative of *ek (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me??/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

meg

1. me (first-person accusative and dative singular personal pronoun)

Declension