meie

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meiden, the genitive of Proto-Finnic *mek, which has become the nominative.

Pronoun

meie (short form me)

  1. we

Declension

Declension of meie
1st person singular plural
long short long short
nominative mina ma meie me
genitive minu mu meie me
partitive mind meid
illative minusse musse meisse
inessive minus mus meis
elative minust must meist
allative minule mulle meile
adessive minul mul meil
ablative minult mult meilt
translative minuks – meieks meiks
terminative minuni – meieni –
essive minuna – meiena –
abessive minuta – meieta –
comitative minuga muga meiega –

See also

Estonian personal pronouns
singular plural
long short long short
1st person mina ma meie me
2nd person familiar sina sa teie te
polite Teie Te
3rd person animate tema ta nemad nad
inanimate see need

Hunsrik

Verb

meie

  1. Alternative form of meue

Latin

Verb

mēie

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of mēiō

Middle High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Old High German meio, borrowed from Latin Maius, from Maia.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈmɛi̯ə/

    Noun

    meie m

    1. May

    Declension

    Declension of meie (masculine, weak)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein dër meie die meien
    genitive eines dës meien dër meien
    dative eime dëm meien dën meien
    accusative einen dën meien die meien

    Descendants

    • Alemannic German: Mai
    • Bavarian: Moa
    • German: Mai
    • Kölsch: Meij
    • Luxembourgish: Mee
    • Pennsylvania German: Moin
    • Vilamovian: maj
    • Yiddish: מײַ (may)

    See also

    References

    • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “MEIE, MEIGE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
    • "meie" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

    Portuguese

    Verb

    meie

    1. inflection of mear:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    West Frisian

    Etymology

    From Old Frisian muga, from Proto-West Germanic *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    meie

    1. may, can, to be allowed to
    2. to like, to find nice

    Inflection

    Strong class 1
    infinitive meie
    3rd singular past mocht
    past participle mocht
    infinitive meie
    long infinitive meien
    gerund meien n
    auxiliary hawwe
    indicative present tense past tense
    1st singular mei mocht
    2nd singular meist mochtst
    3rd singular meit mocht
    plural meie mochten
    imperative mei
    participles meiend mocht

    Further reading

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