Definitions and meaning of mee
mee
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /miː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mi/
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- Homophones: me, Me
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.
Pronoun
mee (personal pronoun)
- Obsolete spelling of me.
- obsolete emphatic of me
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).
Noun
mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)
- Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- Coordinate terms: bee hoon, kway teow, lamian, mai fun, mee hoon, mee sua, mei fun, ramen
- With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- curry mee prawn mee soup
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- Chinese noodles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.
Pronunciation
Adverb
mee
- (postpositional) adverbial form of met
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/
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- Hyphenation: mee
- Rhymes: -eː
Adverb
mee
- (postpositional) adverbial form of met
- along, together (i.e. with one)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: mee
- Jersey Dutch: mê
Adjective
mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)
- able to follow
Estonian
Noun
mee
- genitive singular of mesi
Finnish
Verb
mee
- (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Alternative forms
Fula
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French mai.
Noun
mee o
- (Pular) May
- Synonym: duujal
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Indonesian
Noun
mee (plural mee-mee)
- misspelling of mi
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meː/
- Rhymes: -eː
- Homophone: Mee
Conjunction
mee
- alternative form of mä
Malay
Noun
mee
- misspelling of mi
Manx
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronoun
mee (emphatic mish)
- I, me
- Ta mee aynshoh. ― I am here.
- As ta mee gra riu. ― And I say unto you.
Etymology 2
From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).
Noun
mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)
- month
- Mee Houney ― November
- Mee Luanistyn ― August
- mee ny heayst ― lunar month
- mee ny molley ― honeymoon
Mutation
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mêe
- more
Alternative forms
Adverb
mêe
- more, to a greater degree
- Antonym: min
- more often, more frequently
- Antonym: min
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
Alternative forms
Descendants
Further reading
- “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Naxi
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mee
- sky
- heaven
Etymology 2
Noun
mee
- mark; print
Classifier
mee
- classifier for a mark or print
Etymology 3
Numeral
mee
- ten thousand
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
Adjective
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
- alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo
Pronoun
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
- alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo
Sinacantán
Adjective
mee
- green or blue
Related terms
- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
Spanish
Verb
mee
- inflection of mear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /meˈʔeʔ/ [mɛˈʔɛʔ]
- Rhymes: -eʔ
- Syllabification: me‧e
Noun
meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)
- alternative form of me: bleat
Anagrams
Yola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miː/
- Homophone: mye
Etymology 1
From Middle English me, from Old English mē, from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.
Alternative forms
Pronoun
mee
- oblique of ich: me
Etymology 2
From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Determiner
mee
- my
Related terms
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
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