mei

mei

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Midob.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Midob terms

mei

1. to sleep

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• mai
• me

From English May.

• IPA^(key): /mej/

mei (Bengali script মেয় or মেই)

1. May

• jetja

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

From Middle High German mīn, from Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognates include German mein, Yiddish מײַן (mayn), Dutch mijn, English mine and my, Old Norse mínn, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

• IPA^(key): /mɑɛ̯/
• IPA^(key): /mæː/ (East Central, Vienna)

mei

1. (possessive) my

• meiner
• meinige

mei

1. (transitive, copulative) alternative form of mi (“to be”)

From Middle Dutch meye, from Latin Māius.

• IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

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• Homophone: mij

mei m (uncountable)

1. May

   Synonym: (archaic) bloeimaand

• Afrikaans: Mei
• Jersey Dutch: Māi
• Negerhollands: maj
• → Caribbean Hindustani: mai
• → Malay: Mei
  • Indonesian: Mei
• → Papiamentu: mei
• → Trió: mei

• iem., Mie

Cognate to German mein.

mei

1. (Silesian, Gebirgsschlesisch, Breslauisch) my (mine)

Breslauisch:

	Masculine Singular	Feminine Singular	Neuter Singular	Plural of all Genders
Nominative	mei, mei'	meine	mei, mei'	meine
Genitive	meines		meines	meiner
Dative	meinem, me'm	meiner	meinem, me'm	meinen
Accusative	meinen, me'n	meine	mei, mei'	meine

Gebirgsschlesisch:

	Masculine Singular	Feminine Singular	Neuter Singular	Plural of all Genders
Nominative	mei	meine	mei	meine
Dative	memm mem	menner	memm mem	men'n menn men
Accusative	men'n menn men	meine	mei	meine

• ihch/iech; ich (1st ps. sg. personal pronoun)
• dei & Dei (2nd ps. sg.); sei (3rd ps. sg. m. & n.), ihr (3rd ps. sg. f.); insa / inser (1st ps. pl.)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *mei, from Latin meum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmei̯/
• Rhymes: -ei̯
• Syllabification: mei

mei m sg (feminine miña, masculine plural meis, feminine plural miñas)

1. First-person singular possessive determiner; my

mei m sg (feminine miña, masculine plural meis, feminine plural miñas)

1. First-person singular possessive pronoun; mine

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Latin milium. Compare Italian miglio, Venetan méjo, Romanian mei, Dalmatian mail, Catalan mill, Spanish mijo.

mei m (plural mei)

1. millet

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɛi
• Hyphenation: mè‧i

mei

1. masculine plural of meo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɛi
• Hyphenation: mè‧i

mei

1. inflection of meare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛj/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Hyphenation: mèi

mei (invariable)

1. (archaic) alternative form of meglio

mei

1. (archaic) alternative form of meglio

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛj/^[2]
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Hyphenation: mèi

mei m (invariable)

1. (archaic) alternative form of mezzo

• -ime, emi, emi-, ime, mie

mei

1. Rōmaji transcription of めい

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈme.iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.i]

meī

1. genitive singular of egō̆

meī

1. inflection of meus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive/locative masculine/neuter singular

mei ? (please provide plural)

1. apple

• Méï (Eupen)
• Mai (Krefeld)
• Meie (Selfkant)

mei

1. May (month)

• mei on the Limburgish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^li

mei

1. nonstandard spelling of méi
2. nonstandard spelling of měi
3. nonstandard spelling of mèi

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

mei

1. water
2. river
3. cloth

• Gravelle, Gilles (2001) Daftar kata Meyah-Indonesia dan kebalikan Indonesia-Meyah [A Meyah-Indonesian Lexicon]‎^[2] (in Indonesian), Manokwari, Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Yayasan Pengembangan Masyarakat Arfak (YPMA), pages 30–1
• G. P. Reesink, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002), page 5: 'water': Meyah mei

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj (“fire”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj (“fire”).

mei

1. fire

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *C-maj (“tail”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lməj (“tail; penis”).

mei

1. tail
2. stern (of a ship)

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940) “mei”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛi̯]
• Hyphenation: mei

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mei and Nüpode Huitoto mei.

mei

1. afterwards
2. so, thus

mei

1. after
   • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:6, page 5:

     Jobaimemo naimɨe fiodaiya mei, naiñaiñona ote.

     After that man's dying in the war, he got her.

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

mei

1. shame

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 175
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), pages 82, 177

From Proto-Germanic *maganą.

mei

1. (Föhr-Amrum) would, would like to, like to

   Meest mi gau ens halep?

   Would you help me real quick?

• mooge (Mooring)
• mai (Sylt)

Ultimately from Latin Māius.

mei m

1. (Föhr-Amrum) May

• moi (Mooring)
• Mai (Sylt)

• Months of the year in Föhr-Amrum Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

mei m (definite singular meien, indefinite plural meier, definite plural meiene)

1. alternative form of meie

• meid

From Old Norse meiðr.

• IPA^(key): /mɛɪː/

mei m (definite singular meien, indefinite plural meiar, definite plural meiane)

1. runner of a sled, skid

• “mei” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mei”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “Meid” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• eim, ime, mie

mei

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of moi

• IPA^(key): /mɛi/

mei

1. (intransitive) to come, to arrive

• mei in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• mei in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• mei in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 147.

From Portuguese meio and Kabuverdianu meiu.

mei

1. half
2. middle

From Dutch mei.

mei

1. May

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

Compare German mein, Dutch mijn, English my.

mei

1. (possessive) my

Inherited from Latin meī, masculine plural of meus.

• IPA^(key): [mej]
• Rhymes: -ej

mei

1. masculine plural of meu

Inherited from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /mej/

mei n (plural meiuri)

1. millet

   Synonym: păsat

• IPA^(key): /ˈmei/

mei

1. masculine/feminine plural of méiu
2. masculine/feminine plural of meu

mei m pl or f pl

1. masculine/feminine plural of méiu
2. masculine/feminine plural of meu

mei

1. alternative form of my

• “my, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /me.i/

mei

1. breadfruit

mei

1. from

From Old Frisian mith, mit, mei, mithi, mithe, methe (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰi, *meta (“with”).

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /mai̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

mei

1. with

   kontakt mei oare talen ― contact with other languages

• “mei”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj. Cognates include Khumi Chin mai and Tibetan མེ (me).

• IPA^(key): /məi̯˧˩/

mèi

1. fire

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64