mé
See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛː]
Audio (file)
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
mé
- bleat (the cry of a goat)
Related terms
- mečet
- mekot
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronoun
mé
- inflection of můj:
- nominative neuter singular and masculine plural inanimate and feminine plural
- genitive/dative/locative feminine singular
- accusative neuter singular and masculine plural and feminine plural
Further reading
- mé in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- mé in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Efai
Verb
mé
- love, like
Further reading
- Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist
Etebi
Verb
mé
- love, like
Further reading
- Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mé.
Pronunciation
- (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /mʲeː/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): (unstressed) /mʲə/, (stressed) /mʲeː/; (rare) /mʲiː/[1]
Pronoun
mé (emphatic form mise, conjunctive and disjunctive)
- I, me
- Tá mé anseo.
- I am here.
- Feiceann sé mé.
- He sees me.
See also
Irish personal pronouns
Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) | Disjunctive (emphatic) | Possessive determiner |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | mé (mise) | mo L m' before vowel sounds | |
Second | tú (tusa)1 | thú (thusa) | do L d' before vowel sounds | |
Third masculine | sé (seisean) | é (eisean) | a L | |
Third feminine | sí (sise) | í (ise) | a H | |
Third neuter | — | ea | — | |
Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) | ár E | |
Second | sibh (sibhse)1 | bhur E | ||
Third | siad (siadsan) | iad (iadsan) | a E |
L Triggers lenition E Triggers eclipsis H Triggers h-prothesis
1 Also used as the vocative
The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin Māius.
Noun
mé m (plural més)
- May (month)
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French mei, mi (“me”), from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).
Pronoun
mé
- (Guernsey) me
Etymology 2
From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun
mé f (plural mers)
- (Jersey, France, geography) sea
Alternative forms
- maïr (Guernsey)
- me (Sark)
Derived terms
- crapaud d'mé
- êtaile dé mé
- j'va d'mé
- Mé Arabe
- Mé Baltique
- Mé du Nord
- Mé Ionienne
- Mé Irlandaise
- Mé Morte
- Néthe Mé
- raînotte dé mé
- Rouoge Mé
- tchian d'mé
- tchilieuvre dé mé
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”) (compare Sanskrit मा (mā), Ancient Greek με (me), Latin mē, Welsh mi).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʲeː/
Pronoun
mé (genitive muí)
- I
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b17
- Is mé as apstal geinte.
- It is I who am the apostle of the gentiles.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b17
Related terms
- messe (emphatic)
- mo (possessive determiner)
- sní (plural)
Descendants
- Irish: mé
- Scottish Gaelic: mi
- Manx: mee
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- meig
Verb
mé
- first-person singular past indicative active of míga
- third-person singular past indicative active of míga
Venetian
Etymology
From Latin meus.
Pronoun
mé (possessive)
- mine
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [mɛ˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [mɛ˨˩˦]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [mɛ˦˥]
Audio (Hà Nội) (file)
Noun
mé • (𠩕, 𫎚)
- (colloquial) a side
- bên mé trái
- on the left side
- (colloquial) region, area