mies

mies

1. (archaic, poetic, Northern, Alghero) feminine plural of meu

Outside of poetry, certain dialects and sayings, proverbs and set phrases, this form is archaic and is normally supplanted by meves and meues.

• “mies”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mies”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mies” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mies” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Yiddish מיאוס (mies).

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mies (not comparable)

1. (Amsterdam) mean (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. (Amsterdam) unwell
3. (Amsterdam) scared

• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “mies”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Cognates include Estonian mees, Livonian mīez.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯s/, [ˈmie̞̯s̠]

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• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification^(key): mies
• Hyphenation^(key): mies

mies

1. man (adult male human being)
2. husband (married man)

• (man): heppu, jätkä, kaveri, kundi, mieshenkilö, miesoletettu, setä, tyyppi, ukko
• (husband): aviomies, ukko

• (antonym(s) of “man”): nainen
• (antonym(s) of “husband”): vaimo
• (antonym(s) of “married”): poikamies, naimaton

• nainen
• tyttö
• poika

• “mies”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• esim., mesi

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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mies f

1. plural of mie

mies

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present subjunctive of miar

Borrowed from Yiddish מיאוס (mies, “ugly”).

• IPA^(key): /miːs/

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• Rhymes: -iːs

mies (strong nominative masculine singular mieser, comparative mieser, superlative am miesesten)

1. (sometimes somewhat jocular) mean, wretched

   Synonyms: fies, gemein

   ein mieser Kater ― a horrible hangover

   ein mieser Kerl ― a mean guy

2. appalling, poor

   Synonyms: fies, schlecht

   miese Qualität ― poor quality

   mieses Wetter ― bad weather

mies

1. (colloqial, regional, western Germany) very, severely, extremely, insanely

   Das war doch mies lustig ― Wasn't that extremely funny?

• “mies” in Duden online
• “mies” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯s/
• Hyphenation: mies

mies (genitive miehen, partitive miesty)

1. man
2. human
3. husband

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎^[2] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 12
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 165

From Latin meās.

mies

1. feminine plural of meu

• myes

From Latin messem, singular accusative of messis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjes/

mies f (plural miesses)

1. a harvest of grain
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 61v. col. 1:

     Todos / los iudios q̃ eran foydos por / todas tierras uinierõ agodolias / e eſtidierõ en la tra e cogierõ / ſus mieſſes eſus. Vendimias

     All the Jews that had been made to flee across the land came to Gedaliah and settled the land and harvested their grains and grapes for wine.

• Spanish: mies

mies

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of miar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjes/ [ˈmjes]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: mies

Inherited from Old Spanish mies, from Latin messem (“harvest”).

mies f (plural mieses)

1. cereal seed (for making bread)
2. seed, grain harvest time
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     En torno al pueblo (pues estamos cerca y podemos verlo), lozanas mieses y praderas muy lindas anuncian cierto esmero agrícola.

     Around the town (because we are close and we can see it), lush crops and very beautiful meadows tell about a certain agricultural thoroughness.

   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
     Area of cropfields

     atravesó una mies, donde los frescos plantones de maíz sostenían en sus primeros pasos a las tiernas alubias, viendo correr por entre sus pies a las holgazanas y rastreras calabazas.

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mies

1. (nonstandard) second-person singular present subjunctive of mear (standard form is mees)

• “mies”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024