mey
See also: Mey
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mey f (genitive singular meyjar, nominative plural meyjar)
Declension edit
declension of mey
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Old Norse edit
Noun edit
mey f (genitive meyjar, dative meyju, plural meyjar)
- Alternative form of mær
Declension edit
Pipil edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Teotepeque) -may
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nahuan *maː(y)(V)-. Compare Classical Nahuatl māitl (“hand”). Cognate with Yaqui mamam, Hopi maa('at), Shoshone mo', and Cahuilla -mal.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
-mēy (plural -mejmēy)
- hand (including hand and forearm)
- Tay tikpia tik mumey?
- What do you have in your hand?
- branch
- Nemi se tutut pak ne imey uni kwawit
- There is a bird on that tree's branch
- handle
- Shikwi yek ne imey ne metat pal titisi
- Hold the metate's handle well so you can grind
Synonyms edit
- (branch): -majtzal
Related terms edit
- mā- (combining form)
Scots edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mey (plural meys)
- hawthorn flower
Etymology 2 edit
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Verb edit
mey (past tense micht)
Usage notes edit
Generally replaced by can
Yola edit
Verb edit
mey
- Alternative form of mye
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:
- Nore zichel ne'er well, nowe, nore ne'er mey.
- Nor such never will,
no(now), nor never may.
- Nor such never will,
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, page 86