mei

mei

1. to sleep

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• mai
• me

From English May.

• IPA^(key): /mej/

mei (Bengali script মেয় or মেই)

1. May

• jetja

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

mei

1. (transitive, copulative) Alternative form of mi (“to be”)

• IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

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• Homophone: mij

mei m (uncountable)

1. May

• Afrikaans: Mei
• Jersey Dutch: Māi
• Negerhollands: maj
• → Caribbean Hindustani: mai
• → Malay: Mei
  • Indonesian: Mei
• → Papiamentu: mei
• → Trió: mei

• (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december ^{(Category: nl:Months)}

• iem., Mie

Cognate to German mein.

mei

1. (Silesian, Gebirgsschlesisch, Breslauisch) my (mine)

Breslauisch:

Gebirgsschlesisch:

• ihch/iech; ich (1st ps. sg. personal pronoun)
• dei & Dei (2nd ps. sg.); sei (3rd ps. sg. m. & n.), ihr (3rd ps. sg. f.); insa / inser (1st ps. pl.)

From Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmei̯/

mei m sg (feminine miña, masculine plural meis, feminine plural miñas)

1. First-person singular possessive determiner; my

mei m sg (feminine miña, masculine plural meis, feminine plural miñas)

1. First-person singular possessive pronoun; mine

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 198

From Latin milium. Compare Italian miglio, Venetian méjo, Romanian mei, Dalmatian mail, Catalan mill, Spanish mijo.

mei m (plural mei)

1. millet

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɛi
• Hyphenation: mè‧i

mei

1. masculine plural of meo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɛi
• Hyphenation: mè‧i

mei

1. inflection of meare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛj/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Hyphenation: mèi

mei (invariable)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of meglio

mei

1. (archaic) Alternative form of meglio

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛj/[2]
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Hyphenation: mèi

mei m (invariable)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of mezzo

• -ime, emi, emi-, ime, mie

mei

1. Rōmaji transcription of めい

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.iː/, [ˈmeiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.i/, [ˈmɛːi]

meī

1. genitive singular of ego: "of me".

meī

1. nominative masculine plural of meus: "my (plural masculine noun or noun phrase)"
2. genitive masculine singular of meus: "of my (singular masculine noun or noun phrase)"
3. genitive neuter singular of meus: "of my (singular neuter noun or noun phrase)"
4. vocative masculine plural of meus: "my (plural masculine noun or noun phrase)"

mei ? (please provide plural)

1. apple

• Méï (Eupen)
• Mai (Krefeld)
• Meie (Selfkant)

mei

1. May (month)

• mei on the Limburgish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^li

mei

1. Nonstandard spelling of méi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of měi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mèi.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

mei

1. water

• G. P. Reesink, Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002), page 5: 'water': Meyah mei

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj (“fire”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej (“fire”).

mei

1. fire

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *C-maj (“tail”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj (“tail; penis”).

mei

1. tail
2. stern (of a ship)

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “mei”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

From Latin māius.

mei m

1. (Föhr-Amrum) May

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum North Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

mei m (definite singular meien, indefinite plural meier, definite plural meiene)

1. alternative form of meie

• meid

From Old Norse meiðr.

• IPA^(key): /mɛɪː/

mei m (definite singular meien, indefinite plural meiar, definite plural meiane)

1. runner of a sled, skid

• “mei” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mei”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “Meid” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• eim, ime, mie

mei

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of moi

From Portuguese meio and Kabuverdianu meiu.

mei

1. half
2. middle

From Dutch mei.

mei

1. May

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

Compare German mein, Dutch mijn, English my.

mei

1. (possessive) my

From Latin meī, masculine plural of meus.

• IPA^(key): [mej]
• Rhymes: -ej

mei

1. masculine plural of meu

From Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /mej/

mei n (plural meiuri)

1. millet

• păsat

• IPA^(key): /ˈmei/

mei

1. masculine/feminine plural of méiu
2. masculine/feminine plural of meu

mei m pl or f pl

1. masculine/feminine plural of méiu
2. masculine/feminine plural of meu

• IPA^(key): /mʌj/

mei (personal, emphatic)

1. (South Scots) me

• A
• is

• IPA^(key): /me.i/

mei

1. breadfruit

mei

1. from

From Old Frisian mith, mit, mei, mithi, mithe, methe (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰi-, *meta (“with”).

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /mai̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

mei

1. with

   kontakt mei oare talen ― contact with other languages

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

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej. Cognates include Khumi Chin mai and Tibetan མེ (me).

• IPA^(key): /məi̯˧˩/

mèi

1. fire

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64