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mee

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mee"

English

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WOTD – 31 August 2024

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.

Pronoun

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mee (personal pronoun)

  1. Obsolete spelling of me.
  2. 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

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A bowl of mee (sense 1) in a soup with fishballs.

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).[1][2]

Noun

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mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)

  2. Chinese-style wheat noodles.
    Coordinate terms: bee hoon, kway teow, lamian, mai fun, mee hoon, mee sua, mei fun, ramen
  3. 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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Translations
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References

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  1. ^ “mee, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2024.
  2. ^ “mee, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.

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Adverb

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mee

  1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met

Dutch

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Etymology

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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.

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Adverb

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mee

  1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met
  2. along, together (i.e. with one)

Inflection

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Pronominal adverbs of mee
preposition met
postpositional adv. mee
 het (it) ermee
 dit (this) hiermee
 dat (that) daarmee
 wat (what) waarmee
 iets (something) ergens mee
 niets (nothing) nergens mee
 alles (everything) overal mee

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: mee
  • Jersey Dutch: mê

Adjective

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mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)

  1. able to follow
    Ik ben niet meer mee.
    I cannot follow anymore.

Estonian

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Noun

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mee

  1. genitive singular of mesi

Finnish

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Verb

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mee

  1. (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Alternative forms

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Fula

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Etymology

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From French mai.

Noun

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mee o

  1. (Pular) May
    Synonym: duujal

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Indonesian

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Noun

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mee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)

  1. Misspelling of mi.

Luxembourgish

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Conjunction

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mee

  1. Alternative form of mä

Malay

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Noun

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mee

  1. Misspelling of mi.

Manx

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronoun

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mee (emphatic mish)

  1. I, me
    Ta mee aynshoh. ― I am here.
    As ta mee gra riu. ― And I say unto you.

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).

Noun

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mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)

  1. month
    Mee Houney ― November
    Mee Luanistyn ― August
    mee ny heayst ― lunar month
    mee ny molley ― honeymoon

Mutation

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Manx mutation
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

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

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Pronoun

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mêe

  1. more

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Adverb

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mêe

  1. more, to a greater degree
    Antonym: min
  2. more often, more frequently
    Antonym: min
  3. better
  4. rather
  5. later, further on in time
  6. also, furthermore

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Naxi

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"mee" written in Dongba script

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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mee

  1. sky
  2. heaven

Etymology 2

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Noun

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mee

  1. mark; print

Classifier

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mee

  1. classifier for a mark or print

Etymology 3

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Naxi numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c] ←  10  ←  1,000 10,000
    Cardinal: mee

Numeral

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mee

  1. ten thousand

Neapolitan

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Adjective

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mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

  1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Pronoun

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mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

  1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Sinacantán

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Adjective

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mee

  1. green or blue
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References

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  • Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

Spanish

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Verb

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mee

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

Tagalog

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Noun

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meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)

  1. Alternative form of me: bleat

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Yola

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From 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

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Pronoun

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mee

  1. 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

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From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Determiner

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mee

  1. 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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References

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  • 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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