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me

Etymology 1

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me (“me”), North Frisian me (“me”), Saterland Frisian mie (“me”), Dutch me, mij (“me”), Low German mi (“me”), German mir (“me”, dative), Icelandic mér (“me”, dative), Latin mē (“me”), Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”).

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /miː/
(US) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /mi/
Rhymes: -iː
Homophone: mee

Pronoun

me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)

As the direct object of a verb.
(obsolete, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
As the object of a preposition.
As the indirect object of a verb.
(US, colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
As the complement of the copula (be or is).
(informal, with and, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
(nonstandard, not with and) As the subject of a verb.

Usage notes

Me is traditionally described as the accusative pronoun, meaning it should be used as the object of verbs and prepositions, while the nominative pronoun I should be used as the subject of verbs. However, "accusative" pronouns are widely used as the subject of verbs in colloquial speech if they are accompanied by and, for example, "me and her are friends". This usage is traditionally considered incorrect, and "she and I are friends" would be the preferred construction.

Using me as the lone subject (without and) of a verb (e.g. "me want", "me like") is a feature of various types of both pidgin English and that of infant English-learners, and is sometimes used by speakers of standard English for jocular effect (e.g. "me likee", "me wantee").

Although in the spoken version of some dialects 'me' is commonly used as a possessive, in writing, speakers of these dialects usually write my.

Some prescriptivists object to the use of me following the verb to be, as in "It wasn’t me". The phrase "It was not I" is considered to be correct, though this may be seen as extreme and used for jocular effect.

Synonyms

(subject of a verb): I; my ass (vulgar)
(complement of the copula): I
(indirect object): us (Australia, UK)
(marking ownership): my; mine (archaic)

Related terms

meseems
methinks

Derived terms

believe you me

Descendants

Jamaican Creole: mi
Sranan Tongo: mi

Translations

See me/translations § Pronoun.

Etymology 2

Variant form.

Determiner

(Britain regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my

Translations

See me/translations § Determiner.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

(music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

References

A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]

Anagrams

'em, EM, Em, em, em-

Akan

Pronoun

Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mɛ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *me(t). Cognate to Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after, beyond; in the middle, between”), Gothic miþ (miþ, “with”), Old Norse með.

Preposition

me (+accusative)

with (accompanied by)
with (possessing)
with (by means of)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *manu, compare Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin”), Old Armenian մանր (manr, “small”). Alternatively it could represent a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *mṇi̯ō, to be compared with Latin minuō (“lessen”), Proto-Slavic *mьnь (“smaller”) and the like.

Adjective

me m (feminine mee)

insufficient, scanty, not full

Derived terms

Angloromani

Alternative forms

ma, mai, mei, mey, mi

Etymology

Inherited from Romani me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [meɪ]

Pronoun

I
Synonyms: mandi, tutti

Annobonese

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe (“mother”).

Noun

mother

References

2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin me. Akin to Spanish me and French me.

Pronoun

me (first-person singular direct pronoun)
(to) me (first-person singular indirect pronoun)

Asturian

Alternative forms

m' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego. As an indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative singular of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronoun

me (first-person singular direct pronoun)
me (first-person singular indirect pronoun)

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English May.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me (Bengali script মে)

Synonyms

jetja

References

van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”). Cognate to Welsh mi.

Pronoun

I, me

Carolinian

Conjunction

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mē (accusative of ego).

Pronoun

me (enclitic, contracted 'm, proclitic em, contracted proclitic m')

me (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Usage notes

-me is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with consonant or ⟨u⟩, or between some adverbs/pronouns and a verb. In some varieties of Catalan (Balearic/Valencian) it can also occur in sentence-initial position.

Related terms

Chuukese

Conjunction

Preposition

from

Cimbrian

Article

(Sette Comuni) the; definite article for two declensions:
1. dative singular masculine
2. dative singular neuter

References

“me” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Cornish

Alternative forms

my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

(Standard Cornish) I, me

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mə/

Pronoun

objective unstressed form of ik (“I”)

Inflection

Synonyms

Estonian

Etymology

Short form of meie, from Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun

me (genitive me, partitive meid)

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me. The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (met).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈme/, [ˈme̞]
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: me

Pronoun

me (stem mei-)

Usage notes

Although usually omitted in written language (the verb shows both the person and the number), the pronoun is in spoken language used very often. (compare the usage of minä (“I”))

Inflection

Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
In addition to the standard set of cases, me and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, meidät.

Synonyms

met (dialectal)
myö (dialectal)

Derived terms

me-henki

Descendants

Kven: met

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French me, from Old French me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Northern dialects have preserved a form mi for the indirect object (also found in Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg), from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi, whereas in standard French, it has merged into me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mə/
(Parisian) IPA^(key): /mø/
Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

(direct object) me
(indirect object) to me

Related terms

Galician

Pronoun

inflection of eu:
1. accusative/dative
2. reflexive

Guaraní

Noun

male
husband

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mai (“May”)

Noun

Hawaiian

Preposition

with

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛː/
Rhymes: -ɛː

Interjection

baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)

Ido

Etymology

From English me, French me, Italian me, Spanish me, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/, /mɛ/

Pronoun

me (first-person singular)

I, me

Derived terms

mea (“my, mine”)

Noun

me (plural me-i)

The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego.

Pronoun

objective of i; me; to me
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
  Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,
  You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

(standard, clitic) IPA^(key): /me/^°
(standard, disjunctive) IPA^(key): /ˈme/^*
(Northern Italy, disjunctive) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ/
Rhymes: -e
As a clitic pronoun used before another clitic, it is pronounced unstressed and without syntactic gemination of the following consonant, e.g. me ne vado /me ne ˈvado/. As a disjunctive pronoun used after a preposition, it is pronounced stressed and with syntactic gemination, e.g. a me piace /a‿mˌme‿pˈpjatʃe/ (since a also triggers syntactic gemination).

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

(disjunctive, emphatic) me

Pronoun

(clitic) Alternative form of mi

Usage notes

Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Jamaican Creole

Pronoun

Alternative spelling of mi.

Japanese

Romanization

Rōmaji transcription of め (hiragana)
Rōmaji transcription of メ (katakana)

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese မဲ (mai:)

Noun

ballot

References

Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[3], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Kein

Noun

louse

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Ancient Greek με (me), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”), Old English me, Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī, Dutch mij, Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /meː/, [meː]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me/, [mɛ]

Pronoun

mē (personal pronoun)

me, myself; accusative singular of ego
by me, with me, from me; ablative singular of ego

Derived terms

mēcum, mēmet

Descendants

References

me in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
me in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Lolopo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mɯ³³]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-mwe³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꂯ (mix), Burmese အမွေး (a.mwe:), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun, Tedim Chin mul¹.

Noun

(Yao'an) body hair

Etymology 2

From Proto-Loloish *s-mo¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꂥ (hmu), Burmese မှို (hmui), Gong มู๋, Naxi mul, Japhug tɤ jmɤɣ and Jingpho kämu.

Noun

(Yao'an) mushroom

Mandarin

Romanization

me (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)

Pinyin transcription of 么
Pinyin transcription of 嚜
Pinyin transcription of 末
Pinyin transcription of 麼, 麽
Pinyin transcription of 嚒

Nonstandard spelling of mē.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mai

Noun

Mengen

Noun

(drinkable) water
any liquid
(non-tidal) stream, river

References

F. Madden, Mengen Dictionary (2006)
Dan Rath, Mengen Dialect Survey (1991) (me, mee)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Old English mē, from Proto-Indo-European. More at English me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meː/
Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

me (nominative I)

me (first-person singular accusative pronoun)
(reflexive) myself

Descendants

English: me
Scots: me

References

“me, pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Determiner

me (nominative I)

Alternative form of mi.

References

“min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 3

From man, men, by way of phonemic reduction in unstressed positions.

Pronoun

Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite).

References

“me, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Middle French

Alternative forms

m' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Old French me.

Pronoun

me, first-person singular object pronoun
to me, first-person singular indirect object pronoun

Synonyms

(first-person singular object and indirect object pronoun): moy (with verbs in the imperative)

Descendants

French: me

Nalca

Noun

son
child

Nauruan

Conjunction

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Alternative forms

mme, m', mm'

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/
Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

me (accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)

Coordinate terms

Norman

Alternative forms

mé (continental Normandy, Jersey)
maïr (Guernsey)

Noun

me f (plural mes)

(Sark) sea

North Frisian

Pronoun

First-person singular, objective: me

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Pronoun

oblique form of em: us, we

Etymology 2

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of bûn
Synonym: im

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Norse mit, a form of vit (“we two, the both of us”) influenced by the final -m in Old Norse verbs inflected in the first person plural.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meː/ (example of pronunciation)
Rhymes: -eː
Homophone: med

Pronoun

me (object case oss)

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Pronoun

eye dialect spelling of meg (“me”)

References

“me” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me. Cognate with Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī, Dutch mij, Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meː/

Pronoun

mē

(personal) accusative/dative of iċ: (to) me

Descendants

Middle English: me
- English: me
- Scots: me

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative of ego. As an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi (compare the form mi in particular, found in early Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg).

Pronoun

myself (first-person singular reflexive pronoun)
me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)

Related terms

moi/mei

Descendants

Middle French: me
- French: me

Pali

Alternative forms

Pronoun

enclitic genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative singular of ahaṃ

Pennsylvania German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mə/

Etymology

Compare German einem.

Article

me m or n (indefinite)

a, an

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛ/

Pronoun

Alternative form of moje.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an objective indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: me
Rhymes: -i, -ɨ

Pronoun

me (personal pronoun)

first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me
first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me
first-person singular reflexive pronoun; myself

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:me.

Romani

Pronoun

Descendants

Angloromani: me

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

baa (sound made by sheep or goats)

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

m.e.

Etymology

From mar eisimpleir.

Adverb

e.g.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

me (Cyrillic spelling ме)

of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”))
me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”))

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /méː/

Pronoun

mẹ̑

we (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From (accusative singular of ), from . As an indirect object, possibly in part from (dative of ), through a .

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me

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Usage notes

Synonyms

Related terms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

Determiner

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

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Anagrams

Akan

Pronoun

Albanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Preposition

Etymology 2

Adjective

Derived terms

Angloromani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Annobonese

Etymology

Noun

References

Aragonese

Etymology

Pronoun

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronoun

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

References

Breton

Etymology

Pronoun

Carolinian

Conjunction

Catalan

Etymology

Pronoun

Declension

Usage notes

Related terms

Chuukese

Conjunction

Preposition

Cimbrian

Article

See also

References

Cornish

Alternative forms

Pronoun

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