medd

Root
m-d-d
3 terms

From Arabic مَدَّ (madda).

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

medd (imperfect jmidd, past participle mimdud)

1. (transitive) to lay (something on a surface, especially one's hand)

Conjugation of medd
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	meddejt	meddejt	medd		meddejna	meddejtu	meddew
	f			meddet
imperfect	m	mmidd	tmidd	jmidd		mmiddu	tmiddu	jmiddu
	f			tmidd
imperative			midd				middu

From Old English ġemǣdd.

medd

1. Alternative form of mad

Derived from the adjective.

medd

1. Alternative form of madden

• IPA^(key): /meːð/
• Rhymes: -eːð

From Middle Welsh medd, from Proto-Brythonic *með, from Proto-Celtic *medu (“mead”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”).

medd m (uncountable)

1. mead

From the same source as meddu (“to rule, possess”). Compare with Middle Breton mez (“ability”), Old Irish med, Modern Irish meadh.

medd f (plural meddau or meddion)

1. authority, power
2. possession(s)

• -fedd (“-length”)
• meddu (“to possess”)
• meddwl (“to think”)

medd

1. (colloquial) Synonym of meddai

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “medd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies