mee
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). More at me.
Pronoun
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- 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
Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).
Noun
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.
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
- mé (obsolete)
Etymology
From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.
Pronunciation
Adverb
mee
- (postpositional) adverbial form of met
Dutch
Etymology
From older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d- (cf. kou vs. koude ; slee vs. slede ). The forms mee and mede were subsequently distributed to different senses.
Pronunciation
Adverb
mee
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)
Estonian
Noun
mee
Finnish
Verb
mee
- (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
Alternative forms
- mene (standard)
Fula
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
mee o
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)
- Misspelling of mi.
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
Conjunction
mee
- Alternative form of mä
Malay
Noun
mee
- Misspelling of mi.
Manx
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronoun
mee (emphatic mish)
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)
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
Pronoun
mêe
Alternative forms
Adverb
mêe
- more, to a greater degree
- Antonym: min
- more often, more frequently
- Antonym: min
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
Alternative forms
Descendants
- Dutch: meer
Further reading
- “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Naxi
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mee
Etymology 2
Noun
mee
Classifier
mee
- classifier for a mark or print
Etymology 3
| [a], [b], [c] ← 10 | ← 1,000 | 10,000 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: mee | ||||
Numeral
mee
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
Adjective
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Pronoun
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Sinacantán
Adjective
mee
Related terms
- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
Spanish
Verb
mee
- inflection of mear:
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Noun
meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)
Yola
Pronunciation
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
Pronoun
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
From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Determiner
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?
Related terms
References
- 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