mee
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /miː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mi/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: me
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.
Pronoun
editmee (personal pronoun)
- Obsolete spelling of me.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, scene vii]:
- Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
- obsolete emphatic of me
- 1667, John Milton, “Book LXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 236-238:
- Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).[1][2]
Noun
editmee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)
- Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 7, in Time for a Tiger, London: Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 115:
- He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.
- With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- curry mee prawn mee soup
- 1935, Alec Dixon, chapter XIII, in Singapore Patrol, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, page 107:
- We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork […] Its name […] was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.
- 1992, Hugo Dunn-Meynell, “Singapore Street Food”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, London: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 93:
- Hokkien Prawn Mee – Pork and prawns in yellow noodles. […] Mushroom Mee – Noodles with Chinese mushrooms, minced pork and green vegetables.
- 2007, Lee Geok Boi, “Wheat Noodles in Soup and Gravy”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Classic Asian Noodles, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 150:
- Penang-style prawn mee is spicier and is usually served with more pork than Singapore-style prawn mee. Like Singapore-style prawn mee, the Hokkien mee in this recipe can be combined with fine rice vermicelli.
- 2016, “Noodles and Rice”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Meatmen Cooking Channel Hawker Favourites: Popular Singaporean Street Foods, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 38:
- Braised. Thick. Heavy. These are the key words people associate with lor mee, and it's all true! And it's so dam shiok! If you're a fan of braised dishes with that dark gooey sauce, you'll love this lor mee recipe.
- 2023 May 21, Linda Lumayag, “Our identity is reflected in our food”, in The Sun[1], Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: Sun Media Corporation, →OCLC:
- My former student's kouyteav sachko (mee Champa) is not just any other mee soup. In it is one person's constant reminder of his/her identity heightened in its unique ingredients, taste and flavour and presented vis-a-vis other types of mee soup available in restaurants, kopitiams, hawkers' stalls or at home.
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References
edit- ^ “mee, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2024.
- ^ “mee, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Further reading
edit- Chinese noodles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editAlternative forms
edit- mé (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editmee
- (postpositional) adverbial form of met
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editAdverb
editmee
Inflection
editDerived terms
editDescendants
editAdjective
editmee (used only predicatively, not comparable)
Estonian
editNoun
editmee
Finnish
editVerb
editmee
- (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
Alternative forms
edit- mene (standard)
Fula
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNoun
editmee o
References
edit- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Indonesian
editNoun
editmee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)
- Misspelling of mi.
Luxembourgish
editPronunciation
editConjunction
editmee
- Alternative form of mä
Malay
editNoun
editmee
- Misspelling of mi.
Manx
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronoun
editmee (emphatic mish)
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).
Noun
editmee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)
Mutation
editManx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mee | vee | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Middle Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
editmêe
Alternative forms
editAdverb
editmêe
- more, to a greater degree
- Antonym: min
- more often, more frequently
- Antonym: min
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
Alternative forms
editDescendants
edit- Dutch: meer
Further reading
editNaxi
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editmee
Etymology 2
editNoun
editmee
Classifier
editmee
- classifier for a mark or print
Etymology 3
edit[a], [b], [c] ← 10 | ← 1,000 | 10,000 | ||
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Cardinal: mee |
Numeral
editmee
Neapolitan
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Pronoun
editmèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Sinacantán
editAdjective
editmee
Related terms
edit- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
edit- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
Spanish
editVerb
editmee
- inflection of mear:
Tagalog
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /meˈʔeʔ/ [mɛˈʔɛʔ]
- Rhymes: -eʔ
- Syllabification: me‧e
Noun
editmeê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)
Anagrams
editYola
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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
editPronoun
editmee
- oblique of ich: me
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 48:
- Dinna ishe mee a raison.
- Do not ask me the reason.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 71:
- Teach mee.
- Hand to me.
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Determiner
editmee
- my
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 23:
- Ich at mee dhree meales.
- I ate my three meals.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 41:
- Come adh o' mee gazb.
- Come out of my breath.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 50:
- Mee hoanès is ee-kimmelt.
- My hands are benumbed with cold.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 65:
- Mee coat is ee-runt.
- My coat is torn.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:
- How yarthe to-die, mee joee?
- How art thou to-day, my joy?
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editReferences
edit- 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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