different between mee vs mem

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Phoenician ????????? (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *ma?- (“*ma?-/*may-”).

Alternative forms

• meem, mim

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (computing) A memory access as part of processing.

Further reading

• mem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Catalan

Etymology

English meme

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mem/

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. internet meme

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/
• Hyphenation: mem
• Audio:

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj, [1]

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? ?ajnas al mi, ke vi mem ?us diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memportreto

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

Finnish

Noun

mem

1. mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -mme

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adverb

mem

1. even, still (in comparson)

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ??? (m?m), from Phoenician ????????? (mm, “water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mem/
• Hyphenation: mém

Noun

mem m or f (invariable)

1. mem, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?/?

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Etymology

From French même.

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Etymology

From English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (something copied and circulated online)

Declension

Further reading

• mem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?m/

Noun

mem c

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

Related terms

• memetik

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *m?dye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh?-ye/o- from *meh?- (“to measure”) (whence Latin m?tior). Compare Tocharian B maim.

Noun

mem

1. thought, thinking

Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably from Old Frisian *m?me, from Proto-West Germanic *m?m?. Compare English mum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

Further reading

• “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011