mei

See also: Mei, méi, mèi, Méi, and měi

Aiwoo

Verb

mei

1. to sleep

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Chuukese

Verb

mei

1. (transitive, copulative) Alternative form of mi (“to be”)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: mij

Noun

mei m (uncountable)

1. May

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Mei
• → Malay: Mei
  • Indonesian: Mei
• → Papiamentu: mei

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december ^{(Category: nl:Months)}

Anagrams

• iem., Mie

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin milium. Compare Italian miglio, Venetian méjo, Romanian mei, Dalmatian mail, Catalan mill, Spanish mijo.

Noun

mei m (plural mei)

1. millet

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Japanese

Romanization

mei

1. Rōmaji transcription of めい

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.iː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.i/, [ˈmɛː.i]

Pronoun

meī

1. genitive singular of ego: "of me".

Pronoun

meī

1. nominative masculine plural of meus: "my (plural masculine noun or noun phrase)"
2. genitive masculine singular of meus: "of my (singular masculine noun or noun phrase)"
3. genitive neuter singular of meus: "of my (singular neuter noun or noun phrase)"
4. vocative masculine plural of meus: "my (plural masculine noun or noun phrase)"

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Ligurian

Noun

mei ? (please provide plural)

1. apple

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Limburgish

Noun

mei

1. May (month)

See also

• mei on the Limburgish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^li

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Mandarin

Romanization

mei

1. Nonstandard spelling of méi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of měi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mèi.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Meyah

Noun

mei

1. water

References

• G. P. Reesink, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002), page 5: 'water': Meyah mei

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North Frisian

Etymology

From Latin māius.

Noun

mei m

1. (Föhr-Amrum) May

See also

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum North Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

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Old French

Pronoun

mei

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of moi

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Papiamentu

Etymology 1

From Portuguese meio and Kabuverdianu meiu.

Adjective

mei

1. half
2. middle

Etymology 2

From Dutch mei.

Noun

mei

1. May

See also

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German mein, Dutch mijn, English my.

Adjective

mei

1. (possessive) my

Inflection

	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative and accusative	mei	mei	mei	mei
dative	meim	meinre	meim	meine

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin meī, masculine plural of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mej]
• Rhymes: -ej

Determiner

mei

1. masculine plural of meu

Etymology 2

From Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mej/

Noun

mei n (plural meiuri)

1. millet

Declension

Declension of mei

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mei	meiul	(niște) meiuri	meiurile
genitive/dative	(unui) mei	meiului	(unor) meiuri	meiurilor
vocative	meiule		meiurilor

Synonyms

• păsat

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌj/

Pronoun

mei (personal, emphatic)

1. (South Scots) me

See also

• A
• is

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Tongan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.i/

Noun

mei

1. breadfruit

Preposition

mei

1. from

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mith, mit, mei, mithi, mithe, methe (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰi-, *meta (“with”).

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /mai̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

Preposition

mei

1. with

   kontakt mei oare talen ― contact with other languages

Further reading

• “mei”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011