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Webster 1913 Edition
Me
Me
(mē)
, p
ers.
pron.
[AS.
mē
, dat. & acc., mec
, acc. only ; akin to D. mij
, G. mich
, Icel. & Goth. mik
, L. me
, Gr. μέ
, ἐμέ
, Skr. mā
, mām
. √187. Cf. 2d Mine
.] The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I;
as, he struck
me
; he gave me
the money, or he gave the money to me
; he got me
a hat, or he got a hat for me
.☞ In methinks, me is properly in the dative case, and the verb is impersonal, the construction being, it appears to me. In early use me was often placed before forms of the verb to be with an adjective; as, me were lief.
Me
rather had my heart might frrl your loveThan my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Me
ME
, pron. pers.; the objective case of I, answering to the oblique cases of ego, in Latin. [L. mihi.] Follow me; give to me; go with me. The phrase 'I followed me close,' is not in use. Before think, as in methinks, me is properly in the dative case,and the verb is impersonal; the construction is, it appears to me.Definition 2024
mé
mé
See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"
Irish
Pronoun
mé (conjunctive and disjunctive)
See also
Irish personal pronouns
| Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) |
Disjunctive (emphatic) |
Possessive determiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before a vowel or fh- |
|
| Second | tú (tusa) |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before a vowel or fh- |
|
| Third masculine | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
| Third feminine | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | |
| Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
| Second | sibh (sibhse) |
bhur E | ||
| Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E | |
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French mei, mi (“me”), from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).
Pronoun
mé
Etymology 2
From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation
Noun
mé f (plural mers)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Terms derived from mé
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”) (compare Sanskrit मा (mā), Ancient Greek με (me), Latin mē, Welsh mi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʲeː/
Pronoun
mé
- I
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b17
- Is mé as apstal geinte.
- It is I who am the apostle of the gentiles.
- Is mé as apstal geinte.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b17
Related terms
- messe (emphatic)