mei

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See also: Mei, méi, mèi, Méi, měi, and Méï

Aiwoo

Verb

mei

  1. to sleep

References

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English May.

Pronunciation

Noun

mei (Bengali script মেয় or মেই)

  1. May

Synonyms

References

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German mīn, from Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognates include German mein, Yiddish מײַן (mayn), Dutch mijn, English mine and my, Old Norse mínn, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑɛ̯/
  • IPA(key): /mæː/ (East Central, Vienna)

Determiner

mei

  1. (possessive) my

Declension

Declension of mei
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative mei mei mei meine
dative meim meiner meim meine
accusative mein mei mei meine

Derived terms

See also

Bavarian possessive pronouns
attributive (nominative case) independent
singular plural
1st person singular mei meine meins
2nd person singular
(informal) 		dei deine deins
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Eahna Eahnare Eahnas
3rd person singular m, n sei seine seins
f ihr ihre ihrs
1st person plural unsa unsare unsas
2nd person plural eia eire eias
3rd person plural eahna eahnare eahnas

Chuukese

Verb

mei

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

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meye, from Latin Māius.

Pronunciation

Noun

mei m (uncountable)

  1. May

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: Mei
  • Jersey Dutch: Māi
  • Negerhollands: maj
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: mai
  • → Malay: Mei
    • Indonesian: Mei
  • → Papiamentu: mei
  • → Trió: mei

See also

Anagrams

East Central German

Etymology

Cognate to German mein.

Pronoun

mei

  1. (Silesian, Gebirgsschlesisch, Breslauisch) my (mine)

Declension

Breslauisch:

Masculine Singular Feminine Singular Neuter Singular Plural of all Genders
Nominative mei, mei' meine mei, mei' meine
Genitive meines meines meiner
Dative meinem, me'm meiner meinem, me'm meinen
Accusative meinen, me'n meine mei, mei' meine

Gebirgsschlesisch:

Masculine Singular Feminine Singular Neuter Singular Plural of all Genders
Nominative mei meine mei meine
Dative memm
mem		 menner memm
mem		 men'n
menn
men
Accusative men'n
menn
men		 meine mei meine

See also

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meum.

Pronunciation

Determiner

mei m sg (feminine miña, masculine plural meis, feminine plural miñas)

  1. First-person singular possessive determiner; my

Pronoun

mei m sg (feminine miña, masculine plural meis, feminine plural miñas)

  1. First-person singular possessive pronoun; mine

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Possessor First person Singular mei miña meis miñas
Plural nosu nosa nosus nosas
Second person Singular tei túa, tu1 teis túas, tus1
Plural vosu vosa vosus vosas
Third person sei súa, su1 seis súas, sus1
  1. Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

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

Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.i/
  • Rhymes: -ɛi
  • Hyphenation: mè‧i

Adjective

mei

  1. masculine plural of meo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.i/
  • Rhymes: -ɛi
  • Hyphenation: mè‧i

Verb

mei

  1. inflection of meare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Adjective

mei (invariable)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of meglio

Adverb

mei

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of meglio

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Noun

mei m (invariable)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of mezzo

References

  1. ^ mei in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  2. ^ mei in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mei

  1. Rōmaji transcription of めい

Latin

Pronunciation

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)"

Ligurian

Noun

mei ? (please provide plural)

  1. apple

Limburgish

Alternative forms

Noun

mei

  1. May (month)

See also

Mandarin

Romanization

mei

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

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Meyah

Noun

mei

  1. water

References

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

Mizo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj (“fire”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej (“fire”).

Noun

mei

  1. fire

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *C-maj (“tail”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj (“tail; penis”).

Noun

mei

  1. tail
  2. stern (of a ship)

References

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mei and Nüpode Huitoto mei.

Adverb

mei

  1. afterwards
  2. so, thus

Postposition

mei

  1. after
    • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:6, page 5:
      Jobaimemo naimɨe fiodaiya mei, naiñaiñona ote.
      After that man's dying in the war, he got her.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Root

mei

  1. shame

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 175
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), pages 82, 177

North Frisian

North Frisian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia frr

Etymology

From Latin Māius.

Noun

mei m

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) May

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

mei m (definite singular meien, indefinite plural meier, definite plural meiene)

  1. alternative form of meie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse meiðr.

Pronunciation

Noun

mei m (definite singular meien, indefinite plural meiar, definite plural meiane)

  1. runner of a sled, skid

References

  • “mei” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “mei”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
  • “Meid” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Anagrams

Old French

Pronoun

mei

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of moi

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”).

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German mein, Dutch mijn, English my.

Determiner

mei

  1. (possessive) my

Declension

Declension of mei
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative mei mei mei mei
dative meim meinre meim meine
accusative mei mei mei mei

Romanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin meī, masculine plural of meus.

Pronunciation

Determiner

mei

  1. masculine plural of meu

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

mei n (plural meiuri)

  1. millet
    Synonym: păsat
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

Sassarese

Pronunciation

Adjective

mei

  1. masculine/feminine plural of méiu
  2. masculine/feminine plural of meu

Pronoun

mei m pl or f pl

  1. masculine/feminine plural of méiu
  2. masculine/feminine plural of meu

Scots

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mei (personal, emphatic)

  1. (South Scots) me

See also

Tongan

Pronunciation

Noun

mei

  1. breadfruit

Preposition

mei

  1. from

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

Preposition

mei

  1. with
    kontakt mei oare talen ― contact with other languages

Further reading

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

Zou

Mei.

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej. Cognates include Khumi Chin mai and Tibetan མེ (me).

Pronunciation

Noun

mèi

  1. fire

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64
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