different between mee vs eme

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English m? (“me”). More at me.

Pronoun

mee (personal pronoun)

1. Obsolete form of me.
   • 1606 — Shakespeare, Macbeth 7.7

     Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
     

     For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]

2. obsolete emphatic of me
   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost Book III

     Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
     I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
     Account mee man; […]

Etymology 2

Borrowing Min Nan ??? (m?).

Noun

mee (uncountable)

1. (cooking, Malaysia, Singapore) Noodles, or a dish containing noodles.

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): /m???/

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): /me?/
• Hyphenation: mee
• Rhymes: -e?

Adverb

mee

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

Inflection

Derived terms

• meebetalen
• meebrengen
• meedoen
• meegaan
• meelopen
• meerekenen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mee

Adjective

mee (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. able to follow

Estonian

Noun

mee

1. genitive singular of mesi

Indonesian

Noun

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

1. Misspelling of mi.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/
  • Rhymes: -e?
  • Homophone: Mee

Conjunction

mee

1. Alternative form of mä

Malay

Noun

mee

1. Misspelling of mi.

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?/

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

mee (emphatic mish)

1. I, me

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *m?, from Proto-Germanic *maiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/

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

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?/

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. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mear.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English me, Old English m?, from Proto-Indo-European, from Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me.

Pronoun

mee

1. oblique of ich: me

Determiner

mee

1. my

Related terms

• ich
• meezil

English

Alternative forms

• eam
• eem (dialectal)
• eame
• neam
• neame
• neme

Etymology

From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ?am (“uncle”). See eam.

Noun

eme (plural emes)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle.
2. (Scotland) Friend.

Related terms

• eam

Anagrams

• Mee, eem, mee

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Gascon hemna (“woman”), from Old Occitan femna (“woman”), itself from Latin f?mina (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /e.me/

Etymology 1

Noun

eme anim

1. female

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

eme inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

Further reading

• “eme” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “eme” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Hungarian

Etymology

em (variation of íme) +? e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m?]
• Hyphenation: eme
• Rhymes: -m?

Pronoun

eme

1. (archaic, poetic) this

Determiner

eme (demonstrative)

1. (archaic, poetic) this
   • 1846, Pet?fi Sándor, Egy gondolat bánt engemet...

     És a zászlókon eme szent jelszóval: - (And on the flags with this holy word:)

     „Világszabadság!” - (World freedom!)

Usage notes

A rarer substitute of ez, but unlike ez, it does not take the case of the noun it is attached to, and no definite article is used:

Use eme before words beginning with consonants.Use emez before words beginning with vowels (e.g. emez esetben, emez alkalommal).

Synonyms

• e
• ezen

Derived terms

• mindeme

Further reading

• eme in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from emoglobina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.me/
• Rhymes: -?me
• Hyphenation: è?me

Noun

eme m (plural emi)

1. (biochemistry) heme

Latin

Verb

eme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of em?

Nauruan

Etymology

From Pre-Nauruan *mata, from Proto-Micronesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *mata.

Noun

eme

1. eye

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eme.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.mj/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.m?/
• Hyphenation: e?me

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eme.

Scots

Alternative forms

• eam
• eame
• eem
• eeme
• eime
• emm
• emme
• eyme

Etymology

From Middle English eem, from Old English ?am, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), related to Latin avus (“grandfather”). Cognate with Dutch Dutch oom, German German Ohm, German Oheim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [im]

Noun

eme (plural emes)

1. maternal uncle
2. friend

Synonyms

• (maternal uncle): mither-brither

Related terms

• uncle (“paternal uncle”)

Further reading

• “eme” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eme/, [?e.me]

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Etymology 2

From mierda (“shit”).

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

1. Euphemistic form of mierda.

Further reading

• “eme” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tacana

Noun

eme

1. hand