més-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mes"

French

Alternative forms
  • mé-
  • mes- (obsolete, the form without the acute disappeared in the 18th century)

Etymology

From Middle French mes-, from Old French mes- (“badly, wrongly”), from Frankish *missa-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“divergent, amiss, astay”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Akin to Old English mis- (“mis-”), Gothic *𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰- (missa-), Old High German missa- (“mis-”). More at mis-

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /me/, /mez/

Prefix

més-

  1. mis- (badly, wrongly)
    mésestimer
    méfaire

Derived terms
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