mee

See also: Mee, meé, me'e, mee-, me'ẽ, and mēē

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English (me). More at me.

Pronoun

mee (personal pronoun)

  1. Obsolete form of me.
  2. obsolete emphatic of me

Etymology 2

Borrowing Min Nan ().

Noun

mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees)

  1. (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.

Anagrams


Afrikaans

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪə̯/

Adverb

mee

  1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met

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/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: mee
  • Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

mee

  1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met
  2. along, together (i.e. with one)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: mee
  • Jersey Dutch:

Adjective

mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)

  1. able to follow
    Ik ben niet meer mee.
    I cannot follow anymore.

Estonian

Noun

mee

  1. genitive singular of mesi

Indonesian

Noun

mee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)

  1. Misspelling of mi.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/
    • Rhymes: -eː
    • Homophone: Mee

Conjunction

mee

  1. Alternative form of

Malay

Noun

mee

  1. Misspelling of mi.

Manx

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish , from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (me).

Pronoun

mee (emphatic mish)

  1. I, me
    Ta mee aynshoh.I am here.
    As ta mee gra riu.And I say unto you.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish , from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (moon, month).

Noun

mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)

  1. month
    Mee HouneyNovember
    Mee LuanistynAugust
    mee ny heaystlunar month
    mee ny molleyhoneymoon

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
meeveeunchanged
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/

Pronoun

mêe

  1. more

Alternative forms

Adverb

mêe

  1. more, to a greater degree
    Antonym: min
  2. more often, more frequently
    Antonym: min
  3. better
  4. rather
  5. later, further on in time
  6. also, furthermore

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading

  • mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Naxi

"mee" written in Dongba script

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɯ³³]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan [Term?].

Noun

mee

  1. sky
  2. heaven

Noun

mee

  1. mark; print

Classifier

mee

  1. classifier for a mark or print

Etymology 3

Naxi cardinal numbers
 <  9999 10000 10001  > 
    Cardinal : mee

Numeral

mee

  1. ten thousand

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeə/

Adjective

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

  1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Pronoun

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

  1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Sinacantán

Adjective

mee

  1. green or blue

References

  • Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

Spanish

Verb

mee

  1. inflection of mear:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English me, from Old English , from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mee

  1. oblique of ich: me
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Dinna ishe mee a raison.
      Do not ask me the reason.

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

  1. my
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Ich at mee dhree meales.
      I ate my three meals.

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
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