mee

See also: Mee, meé, me'e, mee-, me'ẽ, and mēē

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English (me). More at me.

Pronoun

mee (personal pronoun)

  1. Obsolete form of me.
    • 1606Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7
      Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
      For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: []
  2. obsolete emphatic of me
    • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost Book III
      Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
      I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
      Account mee man; []

Etymology 2

Borrowing Min Nan ().

Noun

mee (uncountable)

  1. (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore) Noodles, or a dish containing noodles.

Anagrams


Dutch

Etymology

From older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d- (cf. kou vs. koude ["cold"]; slee vs. slede ["sleigh"]). The forms mee and mede were subsequently distributed to different senses.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

mee

  1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met
  2. along, together

Inflection

Derived terms


Indonesian

Noun

mee (plural mee-mee, first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)

  1. Misspelling of mi.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meː/
    • Rhymes: -eː
    • Homophone: Mee

Conjunction

mee

  1. Alternative form of

Malay

Noun

mee

  1. Misspelling of mi.

Manx

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish , from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (me).

Pronoun

mee (emphatic mish)

  1. I, me
    • Ta mee aynshoh.
      I am here.
    • As ta mee gra riu.
      And I say unto you.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish , from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (moon, month).

Noun

mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)

  1. month

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
meeveeunchanged
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

  • IPA(key): /meː/

Pronoun

mêe

  1. more

Alternative forms

Adverb

mêe

  1. more, to a greater degree
    Antonym: min
  2. more often, more frequently
    Antonym: min
  3. better
  4. rather
  5. later, further on in time
  6. also, furthermore

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading

  • mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeə/

Adjective

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

  1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Pronoun

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

  1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Sinacantán

Adjective

mee

  1. green or blue

References

  • Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

Spanish

Verb

mee

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mear.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mear.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of mear.
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