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Mee
Mee
Luxembourgish
Proper noun
Mee m (plural Meeën)
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) Mount am Gregorianesche Kalenner; Januar, Februar, Mäerz, Abrëll, Mee, Juni, Juli, August, September, Oktober, November, Dezember (Category: lb:Months)
mee
mee
English
Pronoun
mee (personal pronoun)
- (obsolete) Me.
- 1606 — Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7
- Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
- For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
- Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
- 1606 — Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7
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obsolete emphatic of me
- 1667 - Milton, Paradise Lost Book III
- Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
Account mee man;...
- Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
- 1667 - Milton, Paradise Lost Book III
Etymology 2
Borrowing from Min Nan 麵/面 (mī).
Noun
mee (uncountable)
- (cooking, Malaysia) Noodles or a dish containing noodles.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eː
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.
Adverb
mee
Inflection
Pronominal adverbs of mee
Derived terms
- meebetalen
- meedoen
- meegaan
- meelopen
- meerekenen
Manx
Etymology 1
From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *me, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“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 ?, plural meeghyn)
Mutation
Manx mutation | ||
---|---|---|
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 (superlative mêest)
- more, to a greater degree
- more often, more frequently
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
Synonyms
Antonyms
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeə/
Adjective
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Pronoun
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Sinacantán
Adjective
mee
Related terms
- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)