mei

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mei"

Languages (31)

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Translingual

Symbol

mei

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Midob.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Midob terms

Äiwoo

Verb

mei

1. to sleep

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 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.

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mai
• me

Etymology

From English May.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mej/

Noun

mei (Bengali script মেয় or মেই)

1. May

Synonyms

• jetja

References

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

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German mīn, from Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognates include German mein, Yiddish מײַן (mayn), Dutch mijn, English mine and my, Old Norse mínn, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑɛ̯/
• IPA^(key): /mæː/ (East Central, Vienna)

Determiner

mei

1. (possessive) my

Declension

Declension of mei

	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mei	mei	mei	meine
dative	meim	meiner	meim	meine
accusative	mein	mei	mei	meine

Derived terms

• meiner
• meinige

See also

Bavarian possessive pronouns

			attributive (nominative case)		independent
			singular	plural
singular	1st person		mei	meine	meins
	2nd person	informal	dei	deine	deins
		formal	Eahna	Eahnare	Eahnas
	3rd person	m, n	sei	seine	seins
		f	ihr	ihre	ihrs
plural	1st person		unsa	unsare	unsas
	2nd person		eia	eire	eias
	3rd person		eahna	eahnare	eahnas

Chuukese

Verb

mei

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

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meye, from Latin Māius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: mij

Noun

mei m (uncountable)

1. May

   Synonym: (archaic) bloeimaand

Derived terms

• meiboom
• meidoorn
• meikever
• meiklokje
• meivakantie

Descendants

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

See also

Gregorian calendar months: maanden van de gregoriaanse kalenderedit

• januari
• februari
• maart
• april
• mei
• juni
• juli
• augustus
• september
• oktober
• november
• december

Anagrams

• iem., Mie

East Central German

Etymology

Cognate to German mein.

Pronoun

mei

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

Declension

Breslauisch:

	Masculine Singular	Feminine Singular	Neuter Singular	Plural of all Genders
Nominative	mei, mei'	meine	mei, mei'	meine
Genitive	meines		meines	meiner
Dative	meinem, me'm	meiner	meinem, me'm	meinen
Accusative	meinen, me'n	meine	mei, mei'	meine

Gebirgsschlesisch:

	Masculine Singular	Feminine Singular	Neuter Singular	Plural of all Genders
Nominative	mei	meine	mei	meine
Dative	memm mem	menner	memm mem	men'n menn men
Accusative	men'n menn men	meine	mei	meine

See also

• 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.)

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *mei, from Latin meum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmei̯/
• Rhymes: -ei̯
• Syllabification: mei

Determiner

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

1. First-person singular possessive determiner; my

Pronoun

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

1. First-person singular possessive pronoun; mine

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns

			possessee
			singular		plural
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
possessor	first person	singular	mei	miña	meis	miñas
		plural	nosu	nosa	nosus	nosas
	second person	singular	tei	túa, tu1	teis	túas, tus1
		plural	vosu	vosa	vosus	vosas
	third person		sei	súa, su1	seis	súas, sus1

¹ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

mei m (plural mei)

1. millet