meg

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

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Mea with g as a placeholder.

Symbol

meg

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Mea.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mea terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĕg, IPA^(key): /mɛɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Noun

meg (plural megs or meg)

1. Clipping of megabyte
2. Clipping of megahertz
3. Clipping of 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:

     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 from mega-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɡ/
• Rhymes: -eɡ
• 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