meie

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meiden, the genitive of Proto-Finnic *mek, which has become the nominative.

Pronoun

meie (short form me)

1. we

Declension

Declension of meie
1st person	singular		plural
	long	short	long	short
nominative	mina	ma	meie	me
genitive	minu	mu	meie	me
partitive	mind		meid
illative	minusse	musse		meisse
inessive	minus	mus		meis
elative	minust	must		meist
allative	minule	mulle		meile
adessive	minul	mul		meil
ablative	minult	mult		meilt
translative	minuks	–	meieks	meiks
terminative	minuni	–	meieni	–
essive	minuna	–	meiena	–
abessive	minuta	–	meieta	–
comitative	minuga	muga	meiega	–

See also

Estonian personal pronouns

		singular		plural
		long	short	long	short
1st person		mina	ma	meie	me
2nd person	familiar	sina	sa	teie	te
	polite	Teie	Te
3rd person	animate	tema	ta	nemad	nad
	inanimate	see		need

Hunsrik

Verb

meie

1. alternative form of meue

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmeː.jɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.je]

Verb

mēie

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mēiō

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• meige

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German meio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmei̯ə/

Noun

meie m

1. May

Declension

Declension of meie (weak masculine)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	meie	die	meien
genitive	eines	dës	meien	dër	meien
dative	eime	dëm	meien	dën	meien
accusative	einen	dën	meien	die	meien

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Mai
• Bavarian: Moa
  • Cimbrian: moajo
  • Mòcheno: moi
• German: Mai
  • → Hunsrik: Maai
• Kölsch: Meij
• Luxembourgish: Mee
• Pennsylvania German: Moin
• Vilamovian: maj
• Yiddish: מײַ (may)

See also

Gregorian calendar monthsedit

• jener
• febrer
• merze
• aberelle
• meie
• ?
• ?
• ougeste
• september
• october
• november
• december

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “MEIE, MEIGE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “meie”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition

Portuguese

Verb

meie

1. inflection of mear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian muga, from Proto-West Germanic *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe.

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /ˈmai̯ə/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛi̯ə/

Verb

meie

1. may, can, to be allowed to
2. to like, to find nice

Inflection

Strong class 1
infinitive	meie
3rd singular past	mocht
past participle	mocht
infinitive	meie
long infinitive	meien
gerund	meien n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	mei	mocht
2nd singular	meist	mochtst
clitic form	meisto	mochtsto
3rd singular	meit	mocht
plural	meie	mochten
imperative	mei
participles	meiend	mocht

Further reading

• “meie (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011