-mēs

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mes"

Old High German

Suffix

-mēs

1. First person plural suffix. Used after a noun ending in a vowel, paralleled by the subjunctive Gothic suffix -ma affixed with the non-singular suffix *-(e)s, *-(o)s. Used in the sense of hypercharacterizing the plurality of the desinence.

References

• Erika Langbroek, Arend Quak, Annelies Roeleveld, Paula Vermeyden: Amsterdamer Beitrge Zur Lteren Germanistik, Volumes 61. Rodopi, 2006, p. 29.