mé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː]

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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

Emilian

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/

Pronoun

mé (Bologna)

1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

Pronoun

mé (Bologna)

1. me (emphatic and disjunctive)

References

Lepri, Luigi; Vitali, Daniele (2002), “mé”, in Dizionario Bolognese-Italiano, Italiano-Bolognese. Dizionèri Bulgnaiṡ-Itagliàn, Itagliàn-Bulgnaiṡ, 2nd edition, Bologna: Pendragon, →ISBN

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

	person		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	m	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a L
		f	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a H
		n	—	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.
For instance, "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “mé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 720; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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, continental, 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): /ˈmʲeː/

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
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 405, page 253; reprinted 2017

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ/

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: mé

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

mé m (plural més)

1. maa, meh (bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat)

   Synonym: mé-mê

Interjection

mé

1. maa, meh (bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat)

   Synonym: mé-mê

Etymology 2

Apocopic form of mel.

Noun

mé m (plural més)

1. cachaça (type of Brazilian rum made of sugar cane juice)
   • 2024, Grelo, “Só Fé”, in É o Grelo:

     Só preciso de um dinheiro pra comprar um mé / O leitin das criança e o Modess da muié / O resto é só fé, só fé, só fé

     I just need some money to buy some cachaça / The kids' milk and the woman's pads / The rest is just faith, just faith, just faith

Further reading

• “mé”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Réunion Creole French

Etymology 1

From French mais.

Conjunction

mé

1. but

Etymology 2

From French mai.

Noun

mé

1. May

References

• Armand, Alain (1987), Dictionnaire Kréol rénioné/Français [Reunionese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Océan Éditions, →ISBN, page 227

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 • (麻, 買, 𠃅, 𠸍)

1. (colloquial) a side

   bên mé trái

   on the left side

2. (colloquial) region, area

Anagrams

• ém