mesme

mesme

1. same
2. self

From Old French mesme.

mesme m or f (plural mesmes)

1. (the) same

mesme

1. even
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:

     Et de ces viles ames de bouffons il s'en est trouvé qui n'ont voulu abandonner leur gaudisserie en la mort mesme

     And of these vile idiots there are even some who didn't want to give up their luxuries, even for death

• French: même (see there for further descendants)

• même (Jersey, continental Normandy)

From Old French meïsme, mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).

mesme m or f

1. (Guernsey) same

• meïsme (chiefly 11th and 12th centuries)
• medesme (11th century)
• medisme (11th century)

Simplification of early Old French meïsme < Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).

mesme m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mesme)

1. (the) same
2. used for emphasis

   toi mesme

   you

• Bourguignon: moîme
• Gallo: méme
• Middle French: mesme (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: meîme (continental Normandy, Jersey), mesme (Guernsey)
• Picard: minme
• Walloon: minme