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
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 (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “mé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Efai
Verb
mé
Further reading
- Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist
Emilian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme/
Pronoun
mé
Etebi
Verb
mé
Further reading
- Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist
Irish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /mʲeː/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): (unstressed) /mʲə/, (stressed) /mʲeː/; (rare) /mʲiː/[1]
Pronoun
mé (emphatic form mise, conjunctive and disjunctive)
See also
| person | 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 | m | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
| f | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | ||
| n | — | ea | — | ||
| plural | first | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | ||
| second | sibh (sibhse)1 |
bhur E | |||
| third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E | ||
References
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46
Ladin
Etymology
Noun
mé m (plural més)
- May (month)
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
Inherited from French mais (“but, although”).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
mé
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
Etymology 2
From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Noun
mé f (plural mers)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
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)
Quotations
- 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.
Derived terms
- messe (emphatic)
Descendants
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Verb
mé
- first-person singular past indicative active of míga
- third-person singular past indicative active of míga
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: mé
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
mé m (plural més)
Interjection
mé
Etymology 2
Apocopic form of mel.
Noun
mé m (plural més)
- cachaça (type of Brazilian rum made of sugar cane juice)
Further reading
- “mé”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “mé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Sassarese
Determiner
mé (invariable)
Venetan
Etymology
Pronoun
mé (possessive)
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Noun
mé • (𠩕, 𫎚)