different between meg vs mem

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Phoenician ????????? (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *ma?- (“*ma?-/*may-”).

Alternative forms

• meem, mim

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (computing) A memory access as part of processing.

Further reading

• mem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Catalan

Etymology

English meme

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mem/

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. internet meme

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/
• Hyphenation: mem
• Audio:

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj, [1]

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? ?ajnas al mi, ke vi mem ?us diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memportreto

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

Finnish

Noun

mem

1. mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -mme

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adverb

mem

1. even, still (in comparson)

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ??? (m?m), from Phoenician ????????? (mm, “water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mem/
• Hyphenation: mém

Noun

mem m or f (invariable)

1. mem, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?/?

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Etymology

From French même.

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Etymology

From English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (something copied and circulated online)

Declension

Further reading

• mem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?m/

Noun

mem c

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

Related terms

• memetik

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *m?dye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh?-ye/o- from *meh?- (“to measure”) (whence Latin m?tior). Compare Tocharian B maim.

Noun

mem

1. thought, thinking

Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably from Old Frisian *m?me, from Proto-West Germanic *m?m?. Compare English mum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

Further reading

• “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011