mes

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes

  1. plural of me
    If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch mes, from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes (plural messe)

  1. knife

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Zulu: umese

Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *meTi, *meTśi-, from Proto-Indo-European *me-t/dhi (“with, middle”), ultimately from *medʰyo-. Cognate to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌸 (miþ, “with”). It might represent a devoiced variant of mez. A loan from Modern Greek μέσος (mésos, “in the middle”) is not excluded.

Noun[edit]

mes m (indefinite plural mese, definite singular mesi, definite plural meset)

  1. middle

Declension[edit]

declension of mes
indefinite forms
(trajta të pashquara) 		definite forms
(trajta të shquara)
singular
(numri njëjës) 		plural
(numri shumës) 		singular
(numri njëjës) 		plural
(numri shumës)
nominative
(emërore) 		mes mese mesi meset
accusative
(kallëzore) 		mes mese mesin meset
genitive
(gjinore)
(i/e/të/së) 		mesi meseve mesit mesevet
dative
(dhanore) 		mesi meseve mesit mesevet
ablative
(rrjedhore) 		mesi mesesh mesit mesevet

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mensis.

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural meses)

  1. month

References[edit]

Aromanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mensis.

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural mesh)

  1. month

Synonyms[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mensis.

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural meses)

  1. month

Atong (India)[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Cognate with Garo mes. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun[edit]

mes

  1. sheep

References[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Occitan mes, from Latin mēnsis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes, Aromanian mes.

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural mesos)

  1. month

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Latin missus, past participle of mittere.

Verb[edit]

mes

  1. past participle of metre

Etymology 3[edit]

From Vulgar Latin mās, reduced form of Latin meās

Determiner[edit]

mes

  1. feminine plural of mon

Dutch[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mɛs/
  • Audio
    		(file)
  • Hyphenation: mes
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun[edit]

mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)

  1. knife, cleaver
  2. (informal) blade

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: mes
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: mesi
  • Jersey Dutch: määs
  • Negerhollands: mes
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: masa
  • → Indonesian: mes (“medical knife”)
  • → Japanese: メス (mesu, “medical knife”)
  • → Korean: 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”)

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French mes, from Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

mes pl (masculine mon, feminine ma)

  1. my (when referring to a plural noun)

Related terms[edit]

Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine
Possessor Singular First person mon1 ma mes
Second person ton1 ta tes
Third person son1 sa ses
Plural First person notre nos
Second person votre2 vos2
Third person leur leurs
1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
2 Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading[edit]

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural meses)

  1. month

References[edit]

  • “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “mes” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mes” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Garo[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes

  1. lamb

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mes

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃

Indonesian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛs]
  • Hyphenation: mès

Etymology 1[edit]

From Dutch mess (“mess”), from English mess, from Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Doublet of misa.

Noun[edit]

mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)

  1. mess (hall)

Etymology 2[edit]

From English mesh, from Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).

Noun[edit]

mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)

  1. (engineering) mesh, structure or opening.

Etymology 3[edit]

From Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).

Noun[edit]

mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)

  1. (colloquial) artificial fertilizer.

Etymology 4[edit]

From Dutch mes (“blade”), from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Cognate of Japanese メス (mesu, “medical knife”) and Korean 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”).

Noun[edit]

mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)

  1. (surgery, colloquial) scalpel, blade, medical knife.
    Kemudian tampak fasia, diinsisi dengan memberikan mes no 22 dan dijepit dengan memberikan pinset cirurgis. ― Fascia appeared, incised with 22 blade and clamped with surgical forceps.
    Synonyms: bisturi, pisau bedah, pisau operasi, skalpel

Further reading[edit]

Kalasha[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes

  1. table

Ladino[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מיס‎)

  1. month

Latgalian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes. Cognates include Latvian mēs and Lithuanian mes.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mʲæsʲ/
  • Hyphenation: mes

Pronoun[edit]

mes

  1. we

Declension[edit]

Declension of mes
singular plural
nominative es mes
genitive mane, mani myusu
dative maņ mums
accusative mani myus
locative manī myusūs

See also[edit]

Latgalian personal pronouns
first second third m third f
singular es tu jis jei
plural mes jius jī juos

References[edit]

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35

Latvian[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mes (personal, 1st person plural)

  1. (dialectal, archaic) we; alternative form of mēs

Lithuanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes, Proto-Slavic *my; akin to Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ). This form in m replaced Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”), probably after the 1st person plural verbal suffix -me. At the East-Baltic stage, the oblique forms were rebuilt by analogy with jūs. Compare the Old Prussian oblique forms nūsan, nūmans, and Old Church Slavonic насъ, намъ (nasŭ, namŭ), from *n̥s-, nos-.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Pronoun[edit]

mẽs

  1. we (first-person plural pronoun)

Declension[edit]

declension of mes
singular dual plural
nominative àš mùdu m, mùdvi f mẽs
genitive manę̃s mùdviejų mū́sų
dative mán mùdviem mùms
accusative manè mùdu m, mùdvi f mùs
instrumental manimì, manim̃ mùdviem mumìs
locative manyjè, manỹ mùdviese mumysè

See also[edit]

Lithuanian personal pronouns
singular (vienaskaita) dual (dviskaita) plural (daugiskaita) reflexive
(sangrąžiniai)
1st person
(pirmasis asmuo) 		2nd person
(antrasis asmuo) 		3rd person
(trečiasis asmuo) 		1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
m f m f m f m f m f
nominative
(vardininkas) 		àš tù jìs,
jisaĩ 		jì,
jinaĩ 		mùdu mùdvi jùdu jùdvi juõdu,
jiẽdu 		jiẽdvi mẽs jū̃s jiẽ jõs -
genitive
(kilmininkas) 		manę̃s tavę̃s jõ jõs mùdviejų jùdviejų jų̃dviejų mū́sų jū́sų jų̃ savę̃s
dative
(naudininkas) 		mán táu jám jái mùdviem jùdviem jõdviem mùms jùms jíems jóms sáu
accusative
(galininkas) 		manè tavè jį̃ ją̃ mùdu mùdvi jùdu jùdvi juõdu jiẽdvi mùs jùs juõs jàs savè
instrumental
(įnagininkas) 		manimì, manim̃ tavimì, tavim̃ juõ jà mùdviem jùdviem jõdviem mumìs jumìs jaĩs jomìs savimì,
savim̃
locative
(vietininkas) 		manyjè, manỹ tavyjè, tavỹ jamè jojè mùdviese jùdviese jiẽdviese mumysè jumysè juosè josè savyjè,
savỹ
possessive
(savybiniai) 		màno tàvo jõ jõs mùdviejų jùdviejų jų̃dviejų mū́sų jū́sų jų̃ sàvo

Occitan[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Occitan mes, from Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural meses)

  1. month

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

mes

  1. past participle of metre

Old French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin magis.

Alternative forms[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

mes

  1. but
Descendants[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

Determiner[edit]

mes m pl or f pl

  1. my (first-person plural possessive)
Descendants[edit]

Old Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mensis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mois.

Noun[edit]

mes m (oblique plural mes, nominative singular mes, nominative plural mes)

  1. month

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Old Prussian[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mes

  1. we, the first person plural pronoun

Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural meses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mês

Rohingya[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Bengali মেস (meś), ultimately from Persian [Term?].

Noun[edit]

mes (Hanifi spelling 𐴔𐴠𐴏𐴢)

  1. table

Romansch[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mes m (feminine mia)

  1. (possessive) my

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mensis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmes/, [ˈmes]
  • (Murcia, Eastern Andalusia) IPA(key): [mɛː]
  • Audio (Peru)
    		(file)
  • Hyphenation: mes

Noun[edit]

mes m (plural meses)

  1. month
    Mi mes favorito es enero.
    My favourite month is January.

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mes

  1. Romanization of 𒈩 (mes)

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German mêse, meise, from Old Saxon mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mes c

  1. a tit (genus Parus), a small bird
  2. the metal frame of a backpack
  3. (colloquial, derogatory) a coward

Declension[edit]

Declension of mes 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mes mesen mesar mesarna
Genitive mes mesens mesars mesarnas

Derived

Related terms[edit]

Zoogocho Zapotec[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun[edit]

mes

  1. table

References[edit]

  • Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 255
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