"meadhan" meaning in All languages combined

See meadhan on Wiktionary

Noun [Irish]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], meadhan [error-unrecognized-form], mheadhan [lenition], - [eclipsis]
Head templates: {{head|ga|noun}} meadhan Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}}
  1. obsolete spelling of meán Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: meán
    Sense id: en-meadhan-ga-noun-CNwMCOGm Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 82 3 3 3 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 2 3 2 8

Noun [Scottish Gaelic]

IPA: /ˈmĩ.an/ (note: Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross), [ˈmĩ˧˥an˥˩] (note: Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross; Lewis, tonal), /mjɑːn/ [mi̯ɑːn] (note: Harris), /ˈmia.ɛɲ/ (note: North Uist; corresponding to the form meadhain), /ˈmɛa.iɲ/ (note: North Uist; corresponding to the form meadhain), /ˈmi.ɛɲ/ (note: Benbecula, South Uist, Barra; corresponding to the form meadhain), /mjaːn/ [mi̯aːˀn] (note: Sleat), /ˈmɛ.ɑn/ [ˈmɛʔɑn] (note: much of South Argyll), /miɑn/ (note: much of South Argyll; unstressed forms), /mɛn/ (note: much of South Argyll), /ˈme.ɑn/ [ˈmeʔɑn] (note: Islay), /mɛn/ [unstressed] (note: Islay) Forms: meadhain [genitive, singular], meadhanan [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], meadhan [mutation, mutation-radical], mheadhan [lenition, mutation], meadhon [alternative], meadhain [alternative], meadhoin [alternative]
Etymology: From Old Irish medón, from Latin mediānus. Akin to Irish meán. Etymology templates: {{inh|gd|sga|medón}} Old Irish medón, {{der|gd|la|mediānus}} Latin mediānus, {{cog|ga|meán}} Irish meán Head templates: {{head|gd|noun|||||||genitive singular|meadhain|||||||||plural|meadhanan||||||{{{pl4}}}|||cat2=|f10accel-form=p|f11accel-form=genpl|f1accel-form=dat|s|f2accel-form=dat|s|f3accel-form=dat|s|f4accel-form=gen|s|f5accel-form=gen|s|f6accel-form=gen|s|f7accel-form=gen|s|f8accel-form=p|f9accel-form=p|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} meadhan m (genitive singular meadhain, plural meadhanan), {{gd-noun|g=m|gen=meadhain|pl=meadhanan}} meadhan m (genitive singular meadhain, plural meadhanan)
  1. middle, center, midst Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-meadhan-gd-noun-Z~wyUaEh Categories (other): Mathematics Disambiguation of Mathematics: 24 28 24 24
  2. waist Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-meadhan-gd-noun-bCRWuZub Categories (other): Body parts, Mathematics Disambiguation of Body parts: 8 66 8 18 Disambiguation of Mathematics: 24 28 24 24
  3. mean, average Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-meadhan-gd-noun-NnU~0v3q Categories (other): Mathematics Disambiguation of Mathematics: 24 28 24 24
  4. means, medium Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-meadhan-gd-noun-gksoXR9L Categories (other): Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header, Scottish Gaelic links with redundant wikilinks, Mathematics Disambiguation of Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header: 15 28 15 41 Disambiguation of Scottish Gaelic links with redundant wikilinks: 15 18 15 52 Disambiguation of Mathematics: 24 28 24 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Am Meadhan, eadar-mheadhanach, eadar-mheadhanair, Meadhan-aoisean, meadhanach, saorsa nam meadhanan, teis-meadhan

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mheadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "meadhan",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "meán"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 3 3 3 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 2 3 2 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "obsolete spelling of meán"
      ],
      "id": "en-meadhan-ga-noun-CNwMCOGm",
      "links": [
        [
          "meán",
          "meán#Irish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meadhan"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Am Meadhan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "eadar-mheadhanach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "eadar-mheadhanair"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Meadhan-aoisean"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "meadhanach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "saorsa nam meadhanan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "teis-meadhan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "medón"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish medón",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "mediānus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin mediānus",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "meán"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish meán",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish medón, from Latin mediānus. Akin to Irish meán.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meadhain",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhanan",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mheadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhain",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhoin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "meadhain",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "plural",
        "2": "noun",
        "20": "meadhanan",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "genitive singular",
        "cat2": "",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f11accel-form": "genpl",
        "f1accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f2accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f3accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f4accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f6accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f7accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "meadhan m (genitive singular meadhain, plural meadhanan)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "gen": "meadhain",
        "pl": "meadhanan"
      },
      "expansion": "meadhan m (genitive singular meadhain, plural meadhanan)",
      "name": "gd-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "24 28 24 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "gd:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "middle, center, midst"
      ],
      "id": "en-meadhan-gd-noun-Z~wyUaEh",
      "links": [
        [
          "middle",
          "middle"
        ],
        [
          "center",
          "center"
        ],
        [
          "midst",
          "midst"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 66 8 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Body parts",
          "orig": "gd:Body parts",
          "parents": [
            "Anatomy"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 28 24 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "gd:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "waist"
      ],
      "id": "en-meadhan-gd-noun-bCRWuZub",
      "links": [
        [
          "waist",
          "waist"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "24 28 24 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "gd:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mean, average"
      ],
      "id": "en-meadhan-gd-noun-NnU~0v3q",
      "links": [
        [
          "mean",
          "mean"
        ],
        [
          "average",
          "average"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 28 15 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 18 15 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish Gaelic links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 28 24 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "gd",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "gd:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "means, medium"
      ],
      "id": "en-meadhan-gd-noun-gksoXR9L",
      "links": [
        [
          "means",
          "means"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmĩ.an/",
      "note": "Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmĩ˧˥an˥˩]",
      "note": "Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross; Lewis, tonal"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mjɑːn/ [mi̯ɑːn]",
      "note": "Harris"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmia.ɛɲ/",
      "note": "North Uist; corresponding to the form meadhain"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛa.iɲ/",
      "note": "North Uist; corresponding to the form meadhain"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmi.ɛɲ/",
      "note": "Benbecula, South Uist, Barra; corresponding to the form meadhain"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mjaːn/ [mi̯aːˀn]",
      "note": "Sleat"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.ɑn/ [ˈmɛʔɑn]",
      "note": "much of South Argyll"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miɑn/",
      "note": "much of South Argyll; unstressed forms"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛn/",
      "note": "much of South Argyll"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.ɑn/ [ˈmeʔɑn]",
      "note": "Islay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛn/",
      "note": "Islay",
      "tags": [
        "unstressed"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meadhan"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "gd-noun 2",
    "gd:Body parts",
    "gd:Mathematics"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mheadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "meadhan",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "meán"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Irish lemmas",
        "Irish nouns",
        "Irish obsolete forms",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "obsolete spelling of meán"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meán",
          "meán#Irish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meadhan"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
    "Scottish Gaelic links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Latin",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "gd-noun 2",
    "gd:Body parts",
    "gd:Mathematics"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Am Meadhan"
    },
    {
      "word": "eadar-mheadhanach"
    },
    {
      "word": "eadar-mheadhanair"
    },
    {
      "word": "Meadhan-aoisean"
    },
    {
      "word": "meadhanach"
    },
    {
      "word": "saorsa nam meadhanan"
    },
    {
      "word": "teis-meadhan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "medón"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish medón",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "mediānus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin mediānus",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "meán"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish meán",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish medón, from Latin mediānus. Akin to Irish meán.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meadhain",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhanan",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mheadhan",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhon",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhain",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meadhoin",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "meadhain",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "plural",
        "2": "noun",
        "20": "meadhanan",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "genitive singular",
        "cat2": "",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f11accel-form": "genpl",
        "f1accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f2accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f3accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f4accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f6accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f7accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "meadhan m (genitive singular meadhain, plural meadhanan)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "gen": "meadhain",
        "pl": "meadhanan"
      },
      "expansion": "meadhan m (genitive singular meadhain, plural meadhanan)",
      "name": "gd-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "middle, center, midst"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "middle",
          "middle"
        ],
        [
          "center",
          "center"
        ],
        [
          "midst",
          "midst"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "waist"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waist",
          "waist"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "mean, average"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mean",
          "mean"
        ],
        [
          "average",
          "average"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "means, medium"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "means",
          "means"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmĩ.an/",
      "note": "Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmĩ˧˥an˥˩]",
      "note": "Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross; Lewis, tonal"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mjɑːn/ [mi̯ɑːn]",
      "note": "Harris"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmia.ɛɲ/",
      "note": "North Uist; corresponding to the form meadhain"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛa.iɲ/",
      "note": "North Uist; corresponding to the form meadhain"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmi.ɛɲ/",
      "note": "Benbecula, South Uist, Barra; corresponding to the form meadhain"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mjaːn/ [mi̯aːˀn]",
      "note": "Sleat"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɛ.ɑn/ [ˈmɛʔɑn]",
      "note": "much of South Argyll"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miɑn/",
      "note": "much of South Argyll; unstressed forms"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛn/",
      "note": "much of South Argyll"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.ɑn/ [ˈmeʔɑn]",
      "note": "Islay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛn/",
      "note": "Islay",
      "tags": [
        "unstressed"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meadhan"
}

Download raw JSONL data for meadhan meaning in All languages combined (4.8kB)

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: meadhan/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "meadhan"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "meadhan",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.