different between meow vs hinta

English

Alternative forms

• meu
• mew
• miaow, miaou (UK)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, with some spellings modelled on French miaou. Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century; before then, mew was more common.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mi?a??/, /mja??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Interjection

meow

1. The cry of a cat.
2. Said in reply to a spiteful or catty comment.
3. Said to denote seductiveness, mimicking a growl.

Synonyms

• nyao

Translations

Noun

meow (plural meows)

1. The cry of a cat.
2. (Britain, slang, uncountable) The drug mephedrone.

   Synonyms: drone, meow meow

Derived terms

• cat’s meow
• meowless
• meowlike
• meowy

Translations

Verb

meow (third-person singular simple present meows, present participle meowing, simple past and past participle meowed)

1. (intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.

Synonyms

• mew

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hinta, from earlier *šimta-, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *?ímta, compare Lithuanian šimtas (“hundred”). Cognate with Estonian hind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hint?/, [?hin?t??]
• Rhymes: -int?
• Syllabification: hin?ta

Noun

hinta

1. price

Declension

Derived terms

• adjectives: hinnakas, hintava
• verbs: hinnoitella

Compounds

Anagrams

• hanti, thain

Hungarian

Etymology

It converted to noun from the verb hint (“to swing, sway”) +? -a (archaic participle suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hint?]
• Hyphenation: hin?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Noun

hinta (plural hinták)

1. swing (for children)
2. (rare) seesaw (for children)

   Synonyms: mérleghinta, libikóka

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• hinta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Ingrian

Noun

hinta

1. price

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hintene

Noun

hinta n

1. definite plural of hint

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hinta n

1. definite plural of hint

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hind?, whence also Old English hind, Old Norse hind.

Noun

hinta f

1. hind

Descendants

• German: Hinde

Swedish

Verb

hinta (present hintar, preterite hintade, supine hintat, imperative hinta)

1. (colloquial) to give a hint

Conjugation