mee

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mee"

English

WOTD – 31 August 2024

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /miː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio (General American):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: me
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.

Pronoun

mee (personal pronoun)

1. 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: […]

2. 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

A bowl of mee (sense 1) in a soup with fishballs.

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

Noun

mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)

2. Chinese-style wheat noodles.

   Coordinate terms: bee hoon, kway teow, lamian, mai fun, mee hoon, mee sua, mei fun, ramen

   • 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.

3. 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

• Hokkien mee
• Maggi mee

Related terms

• mee chiang kueh
• mee goreng
• mee hoon
• mee krob
• mee sua

Translations

Chinese-style wheat noodles

• Finnish: kiinalaiset nuudelit
• Galician: please add this translation if you can

dish containing Chinese-style wheat noodles

• Finnish: kiinalaiset nuudelit
• Galician: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Chinese noodles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -eme, EME, Eme, eem, eme

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• mé (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch mee, from older mede with the frequent loss of intervocalic -d-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪə̯/

Adverb

mee

1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met

Dutch

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /meː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mee
• Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

mee

1. (postpositional) adverbial form of met
2. along, together (i.e. with one)

Declension

Pronominal adverbs of mee

preposition	met
postpositional adv.	mee
+ het (it)	ermee
+ dit (this)	hiermee
+ dat (that)	daarmee
+ wat (what)	waarmee
+ iets (something)	ergens mee
+ niets (nothing)	nergens mee
+ alles (everything)	overal mee

Derived terms

• meebetalen
• meebrengen
• meedoen
• meegaan
• meekijken
• meelopen
• meenemen
• meerekenen
• meetellen

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mee
• Jersey Dutch: mê

Adjective

mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. able to follow

   Ik ben niet meer mee.

   I cannot follow anymore.

Estonian

Noun

mee

1. genitive singular of mesi

Finnish

Verb

mee

1. (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Alternative forms

• mene (standard)

Fula

Alternative forms

• maayuhu

Etymology

From French mai.

Noun

mee o

1. (Pular) May

   Synonym: duujal

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Indonesian

Noun

mee (first-person possessive meeku, second-person possessive meemu, third-person possessive meenya)

1. Misspelling of mi.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Homophone: Mee

Conjunction

mee

1. Alternative form of mä

Malay

Noun

mee

1. Misspelling of mi.

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronoun

mee (emphatic mish)

1. I, me

   Ta mee aynshoh. ― I am here.

   As ta mee gra riu. ― And I say unto you.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”).

Noun

mee f (genitive singular mee, plural meeghyn)

1. month

   Mee Houney ― November

   Mee Luanistyn ― August

   mee ny heayst ― lunar month

   mee ny molley ― honeymoon

Mutation

Manx mutation
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

Etymology

From Old Dutch *mē, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/

Pronoun

mêe

1. more

Alternative forms

• mêer
• mêre

Adverb

mêe

1. more, to a greater degree

   Antonym: min

2. more often, more frequently

   Antonym: min

3. better
4. rather
5. later, further on in time
6. also, furthermore

Alternative forms

• mêer
• mêre

Descendants

• Dutch: meer

Further reading

• “mee (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mee (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Naxi

"mee" written in Dongba script

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɯ³³]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mee

1. sky
2. heaven

Etymology 2

Noun

mee

1. mark; print

Classifier

mee

1. classifier for a mark or print

Etymology 3

Naxi numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b], [c] ←  10	←  1,000	10,000
Cardinal: mee

Numeral

mee

1. ten thousand

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeə/

Adjective

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Pronoun

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)

1. Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

Sinacantán

Adjective

mee

1. green or blue

Related terms

• apparently meelatí (“yellow”)

References

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

Spanish

Verb

mee

1. inflection of mear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /meˈʔeʔ/ [mɛˈʔɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -eʔ
• Syllabification: me‧e

Noun

meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)

1. Alternative form of me: bleat

Anagrams

• eme

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/
• Homophone: mye

Etymology 1

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

• me

Pronoun

mee

1. 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

From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Determiner

mee

1. 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

• ich
• meezil

References

• 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