mee
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). More at me.
Pronoun
mee (personal pronoun)
- Obsolete form of me.
- 1606 — Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7
- Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
- For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
- Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
- 1606 — Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7
- 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; […]
- Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
- 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost Book III
Etymology 2
Noun
mee (uncountable)
- (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore) Noodles, or a dish containing noodles.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 116:
- He watched with pleasure the food sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.
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
Adverb
mee
Inflection
Derived terms
Indonesian
Noun
mee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)
- Misspelling of mi.
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
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)
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)
Mutation
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mêe
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
- Dutch: meer
Further reading
- “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
Adjective
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Pronoun
mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Sinacantán
Adjective
mee
Related terms
- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
Spanish
Verb
mee
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