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 mē (“me”). More at me.

Pronoun

mee (personal pronoun)

1. 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, [Act VII, scene vii]:

     Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
     For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]

2. obsolete emphatic of me
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
     I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
     Account mee man; […]

Etymology 2

Borrowing Min Nan 麵／面 (mī).

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.

Derived terms

• Hokkien mee
• Maggi mee

 

Related terms

• mee goreng
• mee krob

 

See also

• mee chiang kueh
• mee hoon
• mee-maw

 

Anagrams

• -eme, EME, Eme, eem, eme

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• mé (obsolete)

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/

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• Hyphenation: mee
• Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

mee

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

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of mee

preposition	met
postpositional adv.	mee
+ het (it)	ermee
+ dit (this)	hiermee
+ dat (that)	daarmee
+ wat (what)	waarmee
+ iets (something)	ergens mee
+ niets (nothing)	nergens mee
+ alles (everything)	overal mee

Derived terms

• meebetalen
• meebrengen
• meedoen
• meegaan
• meelopen
• meerekenen

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mee
• Jersey Dutch: mê

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

Finnish

Verb

mee

1. (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Alternative forms

• mene (standard)

Fula

Alternative forms

• maayuhu

Etymology

From French mai.

Noun

mee o

1. (Pular) May

   Synonym: duujal

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

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 mä

Malay

Noun

mee

1. Misspelling of mi.

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)

1. I, me

   Ta mee aynshoh. ― I am here.

   As ta mee gra riu. ― And I say unto you.

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)

1. month

   Mee Houney ― November

   Mee Luanistyn ― August

   mee ny heayst ― lunar month

   mee ny molley ― honeymoon

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/

Pronoun

mêe

1. more

Alternative forms

• mêer
• mêre

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

• mêer
• mêre

Descendants

• Dutch: meer

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

Etymology 2

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

Related terms

• apparently meelatí (“yellow”)

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me‧e
• IPA^(key): /meˈʔeʔ/, [mɛˈʔɛʔ]

Noun

meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)

1. Alternative form of me: bleat

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

• me

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.

Related terms

• ich
• meezil

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