mee
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /miː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mi/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophones: me, Me
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.
Pronoun
[edit]mee (personal pronoun)
- Obsolete spelling of me.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VII, scene vii]:
- Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
- obsolete emphatic of me
- 1667, John Milton, “Book LXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 236-238:
- Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).[1][2]
Noun
[edit]mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)
- Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 7, in Time for a Tiger, London: Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 115:
- He watched with pleasure the food-sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.
- With a descriptive word: a dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles.
- curry mee prawn mee soup
- 1935, Alec Dixon, chapter XIII, in Singapore Patrol, London: George G. Harrap and Co., →OCLC, page 107:
- We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork […] Its name […] was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.
- 1992, Hugo Dunn-Meynell, “Singapore Street Food”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, London: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 93:
- Hokkien Prawn Mee – Pork and prawns in yellow noodles. […] Mushroom Mee – Noodles with Chinese mushrooms, minced pork and green vegetables.
- 2007, Lee Geok Boi, “Wheat Noodles in Soup and Gravy”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Classic Asian Noodles, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 150:
- Penang-style prawn mee is spicier and is usually served with more pork than Singapore-style prawn mee. Like Singapore-style prawn mee, the Hokkien mee in this recipe can be combined with fine rice vermicelli.
- 2016, “Noodles and Rice”, in Lydia Leong, editor, Meatmen Cooking Channel Hawker Favourites: Popular Singaporean Street Foods, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN, page 38:
- Braised. Thick. Heavy. These are the key words people associate with lor mee, and it's all true! And it's so dam shiok! If you're a fan of braised dishes with that dark gooey sauce, you'll love this lor mee recipe.
- 2023 May 21, Linda Lumayag, “Our identity is reflected in our food”, in The Sun[1], Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: Sun Media Corporation, →OCLC:
- My former student's kouyteav sachko (mee Champa) is not just any other mee soup. In it is one person's constant reminder of his/her identity heightened in its unique ingredients, taste and flavour and presented vis-a-vis other types of mee soup available in restaurants, kopitiams, hawkers' stalls or at home.
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- ^ “mee, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024.
- ^ “mee, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- Chinese noodles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mé (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mee
- (postpositional) adverbial form of met
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d- (cf. kou vs. koude ["cold"]; slee vs. slede ["sleigh"]). The forms mee and mede were subsequently distributed to different senses.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mee
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)
Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]mee
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]mee
- (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
Alternative forms
[edit]- mene (standard)
Fula
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mee o
References
[edit]- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Indonesian
[edit]Noun
[edit]mee
- Misspelling of mi.
Luxembourgish
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[edit]Conjunction
[edit]mee
- Alternative form of mä
Malay
[edit]Noun
[edit]mee
- Misspelling of mi.
Manx
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronoun
[edit]mee (emphatic mish)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).
Noun
[edit]mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)
Mutation
[edit]Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mee | vee | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Middle Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]mêe
Alternative forms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mêe
- more, to a greater degree
- Antonym: min
- more often, more frequently
- Antonym: min
- better
- rather
- later, further on in time
- also, furthermore
Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Dutch: meer
Further reading
[edit]- “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Naxi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]mee
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mee
Classifier
[edit]mee
- classifier for a mark or print
Etymology 3
[edit][a], [b], [c] ← 10 | ← 1,000 | 10,000 | ||
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Cardinal: mee |
Numeral
[edit]mee
Neapolitan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Pronoun
[edit]mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
Sinacantán
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mee
Related terms
[edit]- apparently meelatí (“yellow”)
References
[edit]- Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]mee
- inflection of mear:
Tagalog
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /meˈʔeʔ/ [mɛˈʔɛʔ]
- Rhymes: -eʔ
- Syllabification: me‧e
Noun
[edit]meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)
Anagrams
[edit]Yola
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English me, from Old English mē, from Proto-West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]mee
- oblique of ich: me
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 48:
- Dinna ishe mee a raison.
- Do not ask me the reason.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 71:
- Teach mee.
- Hand to me.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Determiner
[edit]mee
- my
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 23:
- Ich at mee dhree meales.
- I ate my three meals.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 41:
- Come adh o' mee gazb.
- Come out of my breath.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 50:
- Mee hoanès is ee-kimmelt.
- My hands are benumbed with cold.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 65:
- Mee coat is ee-runt.
- My coat is torn.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:
- How yarthe to-die, mee joee?
- How art thou to-day, my joy?
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
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