# mé
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛː]
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

mé
* bleat (the cry of a goat)

##### Related terms

* mečet
* mekot

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronoun

mé
* inflection of můj:
** nominative neuter singular and masculine plural inanimate and feminine plural
** genitive/dative/locative feminine singular
** 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
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Etebi
### Verb

mé
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish mé.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /mʲeː/
* (Ulster) IPA: (unstressed) /mʲə/, (stressed) /mʲeː/; (rare) /mʲiː/

### Pronoun

mé (emphatic form mise, conjunctive and disjunctive)
* I, me
    Tá mé anseo.I am here.
    Feiceann sé mé.He sees me.

#### See also

$^L$ 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.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin Maius.

### Noun

mé m (plural més)
* May (month)

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French mais (“but, although”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /me/
* Rhymes: -e
* Homophone: mê

### Conjunction

mé
* 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
* (Guernsey) me

### Etymology 2

From Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

#### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

#### Noun

mé f (plural mers)
* (Jersey, France, 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: [mʲeː]

### Pronoun

mé (genitive muí)
* 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$^b$17
    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

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* meig

### Verb

mé
* first-person singular past indicative active of míga
* third-person singular past indicative active of míga

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɛ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: mé

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Noun

mé m (plural més)
* maa, meh (bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat)
    Synonym: mé-mê

#### Interjection

mé
* 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)
* cachaça (type of Brazilian rum made of sugar cane juice)
** 2024, Grelo (lyrics and music), “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 féI 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, 2015–2025
* “mé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Sassarese
### Determiner

mé (invariable)
* Alternative spelling of me': my, of mine

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin meus.

### Pronoun

mé (possessive)
* mine

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [mɛ˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [mɛ˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mɛ˦˥]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

### Noun

mé • (𠩕, 𫎚)
* (colloquial) a side
    bên mé tráion the left side
* (colloquial) region, area