different between meg vs mee

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?g, IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of megabyte, megahertz, megajoule, etc.

Noun

meg (plural megs)

1. (colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.

   (computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs of RAM." (megabytes)

   (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)

   (heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

See also

• mil

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

meg (plural megs or meg)

1. (obsolete, US, slang) a dollar

Further reading

• meg at Green's Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• EGM, EMG, GEM, Gem, MGE, gem

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from mega-.

Numeral

meg

1. (neologism, rare) million, 10⁶

Synonyms

• miliono

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [me?]
• Rhymes: -e?

Pronoun

meg sg

1. me, accusative singular of eg (“I”)

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mü?ä (“rear, beyond”). For a similar semantic development, see Finnish cognate myös (“also, too”). Of the same origin as mögött, mögé, and mögül.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??]
• Rhymes: -??

Conjunction

meg

1. and

   Synonyms: és, s

2. plus (sum of the previous one and the following one)

Derived terms

• megannyi

See also

• meg- (verbal prefix, usually expressing completion; separated from the main verb if the latter doesn't follow the prefix directly)

References

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) m?g

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun

meg

1. we; nominative plural of min?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ??/

Pronoun

meg

1. objective case of jeg: me

See also

References

• “meg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “meg” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me??/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

meg

1. objective case of eg: me (direct object of a verb)

See also

References

• “meg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) matg
• (Vallader) mai

Etymology

From Latin (mensis) M?ius (“of May”).

Proper noun

meg m

1. (Puter) May

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek (“me”), accusative of *ek (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me??/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

meg

1. me (first-person accusative and dative singular personal pronoun)

Declension

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