different between meid vs med

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans meid, from Dutch meid. Doublet of maid.

Pronunciation

• (S Africa, UK) IPA^(key): /me?t/

Noun

meid (plural meide)

1. (South Africa, offensive) A young black woman. [from 20th c.]
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 113:

     The last time she heard Capt Stolz saying: ‘Come on, meid, speak up. Or do you want to die like Gordon Ngubene?’

Anagrams

• Demi, Diem, Dime, demi, demi-, dime, idem

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch meid (“girl”).

Noun

meid (plural meide)

1. (now offensive) A young Black woman.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meit, variant of meget, from Old Dutch *megith, *magath, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Doublet of maagd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?i?t/
• Hyphenation: meid
• Rhymes: -?i?t
• Homophones: mijd, mijdt, mijt

Noun

meid f (plural meiden, diminutive meisje n or meiske n or meidje n)

1. girl, lass

2. maid

   Synonyms: bode, deerne, dienstbode, dienstmaagd

3. Commonly used as an address for female pets, especially female dogs.

Usage notes

• Use in the singular may connote fortitude, bravery or acting like a grown-up, but it may also connote vulgarity or subservience due to the meaning “maid”. These connotations are much weaker in the plural, which can be used neutrally with little regard for context.
• Use for adult women (and to a lesser degree for older adolescent girls) is often considered patronising, which is especially true of the diminutives.
• The diminutive meidje is uncommon; the regular diminutive is meisje along with its variants meiske and meisie.

Derived terms

• dienstmeid
• huismeid
• keukenmeid
• meis
• meisje

Anagrams

• idem

Middle English

Noun

meid

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

meid m (definite singular meiden, indefinite plural meidar, definite plural meidane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1901; superseded by mei

Veps

Pronoun

meid

1. partitive of mö

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Clippings.

Adjective

med (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

Noun

med (plural meds)

1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

   He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

Etymology 2

Verb

med

1. (Britain, dialect) may; might
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

     You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

Anagrams

• D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech med, from Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t]
• Hyphenation: med
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: met

Noun

med m inan

1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)

   Synonym: (literary) strdí

Declension

Derived terms

• mazat n?komu med kolem huby
• medov?
• medovina
• medový
• nebýt žádný med

Related terms

• medv?d m

Further reading

• med in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• med in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d/, [m?ð]

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by
3. including, counting

References

• “med,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Etymology 4

Preposition

med

1. Alternative spelling of mid

Adjective

med

1. Alternative spelling of mid

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með (“with, along with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with, by, through; along, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *meth?, from *me (“in the middle of, near, by, around, with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

• “med” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/
• Homophone: me

Preposition

med

1. with (in the company of)

2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

• “med” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Noun

med m

1. honey

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: med

Further reading

• “med”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mi?du, from Proto-Germanic *mizd?, from Proto-Indo-European *misd?ós. Cognate with Old Frisian mede, Old Saxon meda, Old High German miata (German Miete (“rent”)); and with Ancient Greek ?????? (misthós, “reward”), archaic Russian ???? (mzda, “payment, bribe”), and Slovak mzda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?d/

Noun

m?d f

1. reward

Declension

Descendants

• English: meed

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *med?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

Noun

med m (genitive medai)

1. honey

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u. Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek ???? (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek ???? (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi ??? (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu ????? (“honey”), Persian ??? (“wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mê?d/

Noun

m?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. honey

Declension

Etymology 2

Variant of me?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d/

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) between
2. (Kajkavian) among

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t/

Noun

med m (genitive singular medu, nominative plural medy, genitive plural medov, declension pattern of dub)

1. honey (the sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• med in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *me?u, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

Preposition

med

1. (with instrumental) between (stationary)
2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?t/

Noun

m??d m inan

1. honey

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?t/

Noun

m??d f

1. brass

Inflection

Further reading

• “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?(d)/, /m??(d)/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mædh, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Adverb

med

1. also, as well, too

Derived terms

• See preposition, below

Synonyms

• också

Preposition

med

1. with, together with, in the company of

2. including, containing, with; in addition to

3. by, with; by means of

4. at, in, on, with (expressing manner)

5. to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")

Antonyms

• mot
• utan

Derived terms

Related terms

• genom
• medelst

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Noun

med c

1. a runner (device upon which something slides)
2. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)

Declension

Alternative forms

• mede

Synonyms

• glidskena
• skridskoskena

Derived terms

• kälkmed
• meddon
• medspår
• slädmed
• sparkmed

References

• med in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• dem