See also: Mies, míes, mīes, mieś, mięs, and mies.

CatalanEdit

PronounEdit

mies

  1. (archaic, poetic, Northern Catalan, Alghero) feminine plural of meu

Usage notesEdit

Outside of poetry, certain dialects and sayings, proverbs and set phrases, this form is archaic and is normally supplanted by meves and meues.

Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Yiddish מיאוס(mies).

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

mies (not comparable)

  1. mean (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further readingEdit

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Cognates include Estonian mees, Livonian mīez.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmie̯s/, [ˈmie̞̯s̠]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ies
  • Syllabification(key): mies

NounEdit

mies

  1. man (adult male human being)
  2. husband (married man)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of mies (Kotus type 42/mies, no gradation)
nominative mies miehet
genitive miehen miesten
miehien
partitive miestä miehiä
illative mieheen miehiin
singular plural
nominative mies miehet
accusative nom. mies miehet
gen. miehen
genitive miehen miesten
miehien
partitive miestä miehiä
inessive miehessä miehissä
elative miehestä miehistä
illative mieheen miehiin
adessive miehellä miehillä
ablative mieheltä miehiltä
allative miehelle miehille
essive miehenä miehinä
translative mieheksi miehiksi
instructive miehin
abessive miehettä miehittä
comitative miehineen
Possessive forms of mies (type mies)
possessor singular plural
1st person mieheni miehemme
2nd person miehesi miehenne
3rd person miehensä

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CompoundsEdit

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mies f

  1. plural of mie

GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Yiddish מיאוס(mies, ugly).

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mies (strong nominative masculine singular mieser, comparative mieser, superlative am miesesten)

  1. (usually somewhat jocular) mean, wretched
    ein mieser Katera horrible hangover
    ein mieser Kerla mean guy
    Synonyms: fies, gemein
  2. appalling, poor
    miese Qualitätpoor quality
    mieses Wetterbad weather
    Synonyms: fies, schlecht

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • mies” in Duden online
  • mies” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

LivviEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Cognates include Finnish mies and Estonian mees.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmie̯s/
  • Hyphenation: mies

NounEdit

mies (genitive miehen, partitive miesty)

  1. man
  2. human
  3. husband

ReferencesEdit

  • N. Gilojeva; S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 12
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 165

Old CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin meās.

AdjectiveEdit

mies

  1. feminine plural of meu

Old SpanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin messem, singular accusative of messis.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mies f (plural miesses)

  1. a harvest of grain
    • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 61v. col. 1.
      Todos / los iudios q́ eran foydos por / todas tierras uinierò agodolias / e eſtidieró en la tra e cogieró / ſus mieſſes eſus. Vendimias
      All the Jews that had been made to flee across the land came to Gedaliah and settled the land and harvested their grains and grapes for wine.

DescendantsEdit

  • Spanish: mies

PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

mies

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of miar

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmjes/ [ˈmjes]
  • Rhymes: -es
  • Syllabification: mies

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Spanish mies, from Latin messem (harvest).

NounEdit

mies f (plural mieses)

  1. cereal seed (for making bread)
  2. seed, grain harvest time
    • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
      En torno al pueblo (pues estamos cerca y podemos verlo), lozanas mieses y praderas muy lindas anuncian cierto esmero agrícola.
      Around the town (because we are close and we can see it), lush crops and very beautiful meadows tell about a certain agricultural thoroughness.
    • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
      Area of cropfields
      atravesó una mies, donde los frescos plantones de maíz sostenían en sus primeros pasos a las tiernas alubias, viendo correr por entre sus pies a las holgazanas y rastreras calabazas.
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Etymology 2Edit

From mees.

VerbEdit

mies

  1. (nonstandard) second-person singular present subjunctive of mear (standard form is mees)

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