mestê
Macanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese mester (“necessary”),[1] from Old Galician-Portuguese mester. Alternative form derives from Portuguese há mester (“there is necessity”).[2]
Predicative
[edit]mestê (negative nomestê)
- it is needed, it is necessary[3]
- Antonym: nuncassá
- ...mestê primêro / fazê três quatro viazi
- ...first it is needed / to make three or four trips
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “mestê”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 483
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “amestê”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 159
- ^ https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm