mee
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). More at me.
Pronoun edit
mee (personal pronoun)
- 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: […]
- 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 edit
Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).
Noun edit
mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees)
- (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.
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- mé (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
mee
- (postpositional) adverbial form of met
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
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mee
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mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)
Estonian edit
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mee
Finnish edit
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mee
- (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
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- mene (standard)
Fula edit
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mee o
References edit
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Indonesian edit
Noun edit
mee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)
- Misspelling of mi.
Luxembourgish edit
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Conjunction edit
mee
- Alternative form of mä
Malay edit
Noun edit
mee
- Misspelling of mi.
Manx edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronoun edit
mee (emphatic mish)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).
Noun edit
mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)
Mutation edit
| 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mêe
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Adverb edit
mêe
- more, to a greater degree
- Antonym: min
- more often, more frequently
- Antonym: min
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
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Descendants edit
- Dutch: meer
Further reading edit
Naxi edit
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Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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mee
Etymology 2 edit
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mee
Classifier edit
mee
- classifier for a mark or print
Etymology 3 edit
| [a], [b], [c] ← 10 | ← 1,000 | 10,000 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: mee | ||||
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mee
Neapolitan edit
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mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Pronoun edit
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Sinacantán edit
Adjective edit
mee
Related terms edit
- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References edit
- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
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mee
- inflection of mear:
Tagalog edit
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meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)
Yola edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English me, from Old English mē, from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.
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Pronoun edit
mee
- oblique of ich: me
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 48:
- Dinna ishe mee a raison.
- Do not ask me the reason.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 71:
- Teach mee.
- Hand to me.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Determiner edit
mee
- my
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 23:
- Ich at mee dhree meales.
- I ate my three meals.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 41:
- Come adh o' mee gazb.
- Come out of my breath.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 50:
- Mee hoanès is ee-kimmelt.
- My hands are benumbed with cold.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 65:
- Mee coat is ee-runt.
- My coat is torn.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:
- How yarthe to-die, mee joee?
- How art thou to-day, my joy?
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References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867