mé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː]

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mé

1. bleat (the cry of a goat)

Related terms

• mečet
• mekot

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

mé

1. inflection of můj:
   1. nominative neuter singular and masculine plural inanimate and feminine plural
   2. genitive/dative/locative feminine singular
   3. 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

1. love, like

Further reading

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

Etebi

Verb

mé

1. love, like

Further reading

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mé.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mʲeː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): (unstressed) /mʲə/, (stressed) /mʲeː/; (rare) /mʲiː/

Pronoun

mé (emphatic form mise, conjunctive and disjunctive)

1. I, me

   Tá mé anseo.

   I am here.

   Feiceann sé mé.

   He sees me.

See also

Irish personal pronouns

Number	Person (and gender)	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 masculine	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a L
	Third feminine	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a H
	Third neuter	—	ea	—
Plural	First	muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár E
	Second	sibh (sibhse)1		bhur E
	Third	siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a E

^L Triggers lenition ^E Triggers eclipsis ^H Triggers h-prothesis

¹ Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin Maius.

Noun

mé m (plural més)

1. May (month)

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French mais (“but, although”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: mê

Conjunction

mé

1. but

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

1. (Guernsey) me

Etymology 2

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Noun

mé f (plural mers)

1. (Jersey, France, geography) sea

Alternative forms

• maïr (Guernsey)
• me (Sark)

Derived terms

• crapaud d'mé
• êtaile dé mé
• j'va d'mé
• Mé Arabe
• Mé Baltique
• Mé du Nord
• Mé Ionienne
• Mé Irlandaise
• Mé Morte
• Néthe Mé
• raînotte dé mé
• Rouoge Mé
• tchian d'mé
• tchilieuvre dé mé

 

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)

1. I

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. 5^b17

  Is mé as apstal geinte.

  It is I who am the apostle of the gentiles.

Derived terms

• messe (emphatic)

Descendants

• Irish: mé
• Manx: mee
• Scottish Gaelic: mi

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

• meig

Verb

mé

1. first-person singular past indicative active of míga
2. third-person singular past indicative active of míga

Sassarese

Determiner

mé (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of me': my, of mine

Venetan

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mé (possessive)

1. mine

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɛ˦˥]

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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Noun

mé • (𠩕, 𫎚)

1. (colloquial) a side

   bên mé trái

   on the left side

2. (colloquial) region, area