mees

mees

1. plural of mee

From Dutch mees.

mees (plural mese)

1. tit, chickadee

From Middle Dutch mêse, from Old Dutch *mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (“chickadee, titmouse”).

• IPA^(key): /meːs/

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• Hyphenation: mees
• Rhymes: -eːs

mees f (plural mezen, diminutive meesje n)

1. tit, bird of the family Paridae

   De mees zat op een tak te zingen.

   The tit sat on a branch singing.

   Hij zag een mees in zijn tuin.

   He saw a tit in his garden.

   Ze voedt de mezen in de winter met vogelzaad.

   She feeds the tits in the winter with bird seed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈmeːs]

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• Rhymes: -eːs
• Hyphenation: mees

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *mēgaz (earlier Proto-Finnic *meexes), compare Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌲𐍃 (mēgs, “son-in-law”), Old English mǣġ (“relative”) and Old Norse mágr (“male relative”), although this proposal is questionable for phonetic reasons. Cognate with Finnish mies, Livonian mīez, Votic meez, Ingrian mees, Livvi mies, Ludian miez and Veps mez'.

mees (genitive mehe, partitive meest)

1. man (an adult male human)

   Synonyms: (emphasising their gender) meesterahvas, meesisik

   Hypernym: inimene

   Kui palju on teie kolleegide hulgas mehi?

   How many of your colleagues are men?

2. husband (a woman's spouse, consort or sexual partner)

   Hypernym: abikaasa

   Tema endine mees on ohvitser.

   Her ex-husband/boyfriend is a military officer.

3. (without specific reference to gender) human, person

   Tegin ausa mehe näo pähe.

   I put on the face of an honest person.

• (male human): meesterahvas, meesisik
• (human, person): inimene
• (husband): abielumees, naisemees

• (antonym(s) of “male human”): naine
• (antonym(s) of “married man”): poissmees
• (antonym(s) of “husband”): naine, abielunaine

• (male human): inimene
• (husband): abikaasa

• naine

• poiss
• tüdruk

mees

1. inessive singular of mesi

• mees in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “mees”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Cognates include Finnish mies and Estonian mees.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈmeːz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈme̝ːʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -eːs
• Hyphenation: mees

mees

1. man
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 70:

     Mees oli viijenkymmenän voovven ikkäin.

     The man was fifty years old.

   • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:

     A teen äärees istuu mees adran pääl.

     And next to it a man sits on top of a plough.

2. husband

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈme.esːæ/, [ˈme̞.e̞s̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈme.es/, [ˈme̞.e̞ʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -e.esː, -e.es
• Hyphenation: me‧es

mees

1. inessive singular of mesi

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “мїезъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 308
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 80

meēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of meō

mees

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of mear