meve

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mibi, modification of Classical Latin mihi.

Appears to have been native at least to the medieval dialect of the Marche. In Tuscany, may represent a borrowing from the Sicilian poets (cf. the alternative form mentioned above). In that case, meve would reflect a 'nativization' of the vowels, perhaps along the lines of teve, the native status of which in Tuscany is suggested by cotevesto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.ve/
  • Rhymes: -eve
  • Hyphenation: mé‧ve

Pronoun

meve (archaic)

  1. me (1st-person singular personal pronoun)

References

  • Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1968. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Morfologia. Turin: Einaudi. §442.

Further reading

  • meve in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Verb

meve

  1. move
    • 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde:
      The sharpe shoures felle of armes preve,
      That Ector or his othere bretheren diden,
      Ne made him only ther-fore ones meve;
      And yet was he, wher-so men wente or riden,
      Founde oon the beste, and lengest tyme abiden
      Ther peril was, and dide eek such travayle
      In armes, that to thenke it was mervayle.
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Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mibi, modification of Classical Latin mihi.

In modern times, used in Ripacandida, Spinazzola, and parts of Lecce. Enjoyed a wider distribution in the past (cf. the Ritmo cassinese).

Pronoun

meve

  1. me (stressed oblique pronoun)

References

  • Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1968. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Morfologia. Turin: Einaudi. §442.
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