meve

Italian

Alternative forms

• mivi (used by Giacomino Pugliese)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mibi, modification of Classical Latin mihi.

Appears to have been native at least to the medieval dialect of the Marche. In Tuscany, may represent a borrowing from the Sicilian poets (cf. the alternative form mentioned above). In that case, meve would reflect a 'nativization' of the vowels, perhaps along the lines of teve, the native status of which in Tuscany is suggested by cotevesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.ve/
• Rhymes: -eve
• Hyphenation: mé‧ve

Pronoun

meve (archaic)

1. me (1^st-person singular personal pronoun)

References

• Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1968. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Morfologia. Turin: Einaudi. §442.

Further reading

• meve in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Verb

meve

1. move
   • 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde:

     The sharpe shoures felle of armes preve,
     That Ector or his othere bretheren diden,
     Ne made him only ther-fore ones meve;
     And yet was he, wher-so men wente or riden,
     Founde oon the beste, and lengest tyme abiden
     Ther peril was, and dide eek such travayle
     In armes, that to thenke it was mervayle.

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Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mibi, modification of Classical Latin mihi.

In modern times, used in Ripacandida, Spinazzola, and parts of Lecce. Enjoyed a wider distribution in the past (cf. the Ritmo cassinese).

Pronoun

meve

1. me (stressed oblique pronoun)

References

• Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1968. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Morfologia. Turin: Einaudi. §442.