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mé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛː]
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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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mé

  1. bleat (the cry of a goat)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

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mé

  1. inflection of můj:
    1. nominative neuter singular and masculine plural inanimate and feminine plural
    2. genitive/dative/locative feminine singular
    3. accusative neuter singular and masculine plural and feminine plural

Further reading

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  • “mé”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “mé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Efai

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Verb

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mé

  1. love, like

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Etebi

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Verb

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mé

  1. love, like

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mé.

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Pronoun

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mé (emphatic form mise, conjunctive and disjunctive)

  1. I, me
    Tá mé anseo.
    I am here.
    Feiceann sé mé.
    He sees me.

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Irish personal pronouns
person conjunctive
(emphatic) 		disjunctive
(emphatic) 		possessive
determiner
singular first mé
(mise) 		mo L
m' before vowel sounds
second tú
(tusa)1 		thú
(thusa) 		do L
d' before vowel sounds
third m sé
(seisean) 		é
(eisean) 		a L
f sí
(sise) 		í
(ise) 		a H
n — ea —
plural first muid, sinn
(muidne, muide), (sinne) 		ár E
second sibh
(sibhse)1 		bhur E
third siad
(siadsan) 		iad
(iadsan) 		a E

L Triggers lenition   E Triggers eclipsis   H Triggers h-prothesis

1 Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun.
For instance, "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46

Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin Maius.

Noun

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mé m (plural més)

  1. May (month)

Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

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Inherited from French mais (“but, although”).

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Conjunction

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mé

  1. but

Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French mei, mi (“me”), from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).

Pronoun

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mé

  1. (Guernsey) me

Etymology 2

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From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

 
Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nrf

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Noun

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mé f (plural mers)

  1. (Jersey, France, geography) sea
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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”) (compare Sanskrit मा (mā), Ancient Greek με (me), Latin mē, Welsh mi).

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Pronoun

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mé (genitive muí)

  1. I

Quotations

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  • 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.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: mé
  • Manx: mee
  • Scottish Gaelic: mi

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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mé

  1. first-person singular past indicative active of míga
  2. third-person singular past indicative active of míga

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: mé

Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Noun

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mé m (plural més)

  1. maa, meh (bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat)
    Synonym: mé-mê

Interjection

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mé

  1. maa, meh (bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat)
    Synonym: mé-mê

Etymology 2

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Apocopic form of mel.

Noun

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mé m (plural més)

  1. cachaça (type of Brazilian rum made of sugar cane juice)
    • 2024, Grelo, “Só Fé”, in É o Grelo:
      Só preciso de um dinheiro pra comprar um mé / O leitin das criança e o Modess da muié / O resto é só fé, só fé, só fé
      I just need some money to buy some cachaça / The kids' milk and the woman's pads / The rest is just faith, just faith, just faith

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Sassarese

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Determiner

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mé (invariable)

  1. Alternative spelling of me': my, of mine

Venetan

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Etymology

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From Latin meus.

Pronoun

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mé (possessive)

  1. mine

Vietnamese

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Noun

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mé • (𠩕, 𫎚)

  1. (colloquial) a side
    bên mé trái
    on the left side
  2. (colloquial) region, area
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