mes

Etymology

From Dutch mes.

Noun

mes (plural messe)

1. knife

Alternative forms

• midis

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *meTi, *meTśi-, from Proto-Indo-European *me-t/dhi (“with, middle”), ultimately from *medʰyo-. Cognate to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌸 (miþ, “with”). It might represent a devoiced variant of mez. A loan from Modern Greek μέσος (mésos, “in the middle”) is not excluded.

Noun

mes m (indefinite plural mese, definite singular mesi, definite plural meset)

1. middle

Etymology

From Latin mensis.

Noun

mes m (plural mesh)

1. month

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan mes, from Latin mensis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes, Aromanian mes.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-Germanic *matisahsą (“food knife”), an early compound of Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”) + *sahsą (“knife”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛs/

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Noun

mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)

1. knife, cleaver
2. (informal) blade

Etymology

From Old French mes, from Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

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Determiner

mes pl (masculine mon, feminine ma)

1. plural of mon plural of ma (possessive), my

Further reading

• “mes” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis.

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

Romanization

mes

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃

Noun

mes

1. table

Pronoun

mes (personal, 1st person plural)

1. (dialectal, archaic) we; alternative form of mēs

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mẽs, Old Prussian mes, Old Church Slavonic мꙑ (my); akin to Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ). This form in m replaced Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”), probably after the 1st person plural verbal suffix -me. At the East-Baltic stage, the oblique forms were rebuilt by analogy with jūs. Compare the Old Prussian oblique forms nūsan, nūmans, and Old Church Slavonic насъ, намъ (nasŭ, namŭ), from *n̥s-, nos-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲæːs/

Pronoun

mẽs

1. we (first-person plural pronoun)

Etymology

From Old Occitan mes, from Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

Etymology 1

From Latin magis.

Etymology 2

From Latin meōs, meī and meās, meae.

Etymology

From Latin mensis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mois.

Noun

mes m (oblique plural mes, nominative singular mes, nominative plural mes)

1. month

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “mensis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 61, page 713

Pronoun

mes

1. we, the first person plural pronoun

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. Obsolete spelling of mês

Etymology

From Bengali মেস (mēs), ultimately from Persian.

Noun

mes

1. table

Adjective

mes m (feminine mia)

1. (possessive) my

Etymology

From Latin mensis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mes/
  • IPA^(key): [me̞s]
  • (Murcia, Eastern Andalusia) IPA^(key): [mɛː]

Noun

mes m (plural meses)

1. month

   Mi mes favorito es enero.

   My favourite month is January.

Noun

mes c

1. a tit (latin name Parus), a small bird
2. the metal frame of a backpack
3. (colloquial, derogatory) a coward