mee
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). More at me.
Pronoun
mee (personal pronoun)
- Obsolete form of me.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act VII, scene vii]:
- Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
- For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
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- obsolete emphatic of me
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
Account mee man; […]
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Noun
mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees)
- (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore) Noodles, or a dish containing noodles.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 116:
- He watched with pleasure the food sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.
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Dutch
Etymology
From older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d- (cf. kou vs. koude ["cold"]; slee vs. slede ["sleigh"]). The forms mee and mede were subsequently distributed to different senses.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mee
- Rhymes: -eː
Inflection
Derived terms
Estonian
Indonesian
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meː/
- Rhymes: -eː
- Homophone: Mee
Malay
Manx
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miː/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronoun
mee (emphatic mish)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).
Noun
mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)
Mutation
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mee | vee | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meː/
Adverb
mêe
- more, to a greater degree
- Antonym: min
- more often, more frequently
- Antonym: min
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
Descendants
- Dutch: meer
Naxi

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɯ³³]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan [Term?].
Classifier
mee
- classifier for a mark or print
Etymology 3
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Cardinal : mee | ||
Sinacantán
Related terms
- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
Spanish
Verb
mee
- inflection of mear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Yola
Etymology 1
From Middle English me, from Old English mē, from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.
Alternative forms
Pronoun
mee
Etymology 2
From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Determiner
mee
- my
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Ich at mee dhree meales.
- I ate my three meals.
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 23 & 48