# mee
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /miː/
* (General American) IPA: /mi/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophones: me, 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)
* 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

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

#### Noun

mee (countable and uncountable, plural mees) (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore)
* 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.
* 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, 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 kia
* mee krob
* mee pok
* mee rebus
* mee siam
* mee sua
* mee tai mak

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “mee, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024.
* ↑ “mee, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.

### 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: /mɪə̯/

### Adverb

mee
* (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: /meː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mee
* Rhymes: -eː

### Adverb

mee
* (postpositional) adverbial form of met
* along, together (i.e. with one)

#### Derived terms

* meebetalen
* meebrengen
* meedoen
* meegaan
* meekijken
* meelopen
* meenemen
* meerekenen
* meerijden
* meetellen
* meevoelen

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: mee
* Jersey Dutch: mê

### Adjective

mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)
* able to follow
    Ik ben niet meer mee.I cannot follow anymore.

## Estonian
### Noun

mee
* genitive singular of mesi

## Finnish
### Verb

mee
* (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of mennä:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

#### Alternative forms

* mene (standard)

## Fula
### Alternative forms

* maayuhu

### Etymology

From French mai.

### Noun

mee o
* (Pular) May
    Synonym: duujal

### References

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

## Indonesian
### Noun

mee (plural mee-mee)
* Misspelling of mi.

## Luxembourgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meː/
** Rhymes: -eː
** Homophone: Mee

### Conjunction

mee
* Alternative form of mä

## Malay
### Noun

mee
* Misspelling of mi.

## Manx
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronoun

mee (emphatic mish)
* 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)
* month
    Mee Houney ― November
    Mee Luanistyn ― August
    mee ny heayst ― lunar month
    mee ny molley ― honeymoon

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meː/

### Pronoun

mêe
* more

#### Alternative forms

* mêer
* mêre

### Adverb

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

* mêer
* mêre

#### Descendants

* Dutch: meer

### Further reading

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

## Naxi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɯ³³]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

mee
* sky
* heaven

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mee
* mark; print

#### Classifier

mee
* classifier for a mark or print

### Etymology 3
#### Numeral

mee
* ten thousand

## Neapolitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeə/

### Adjective

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
* Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

### Pronoun

mèe f pl (first person singular possessive)
* Alternative form of mèje; feminine plural of mìo

## Sinacantán
### Adjective

mee
* green or blue

#### Related terms

* apparently meelatí (“yellow”)

### References

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

## Spanish
### Verb

mee
* inflection of mear:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

meê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜁ)
* Alternative form of me: bleat

### Anagrams

* eme

## Yola
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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
* 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
* 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