different between meu vs emeu

English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?um (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.

Alternative forms

• (rare) mew

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mju/

Noun

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

   Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Fon m??wú (“meu”).

Alternative forms

• Meu
• mehu, Mehu

Noun

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

   Coordinate term: migan

References

Anagrams

• EMU, Ume, emu, mue, ume

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a meu
• (a) njeu

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

Pronoun

meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

Related terms

• miui
• nju

See also

• (a) tãu
• (a) lui, (a) ljei
• (a) nostru
• (a) vostru
• (a) lor

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mew/

Pronoun

meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

1. my, mine

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

• Also used after some prepositions:

Declension

See also

• mon

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of mèu (“meow”)

Further reading

• “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician and Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mew/, /?m?w/

Pronoun

meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

1. (possessive) my

2. (possessive) mine

Interjection

meu

1. man; dude

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ligurian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (môlos), ????? (mólos), itself from Latin m?l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mø?/

Noun

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin meum.

Adjective

meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

1. my, mine

   Synonym: mon

Descendants

• Catalan: meu

Old French

Alternative forms

• meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

meu

1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /mew/
• Hyphenation: meu

Pronoun

meu m (feminine minha, plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   2. Pertaining or belonging to me; my; mine.

      O meu computador.

   4. That serves or interests me; my; mine.

      O meu ônibus.

   6. Introduced by me; my.

      O herói da minha história.

   8. Merited by me; my.

      Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro.

   10. Related to me; my.

       Meu pai veio me visitar.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

See also

Interjection

meu!

2. (Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
4. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• me? (old orthography)

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mew/

Determiner

meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

Declension

Pronoun

meu m or n

1. (preceded by "al") mine

See also

• lor
• nostru
• s?u, lui
• t?u
• vostru

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meu/

Pronoun

meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

1. my, mine

Related terms

• tuu/tou/tuo
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

Zou

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese ? (m?o).

Noun

meu

1. cat (Felis catus)

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65

English

Noun

emeu (plural emeus)

1. Obsolete spelling of emu