mes
English
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch mes, from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛs/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- knipmes
- slagmes
Albanian
Alternative forms
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.
Declension
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Aragonese
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mes”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Atong (India)
Etymology
Cognate with Garo mes. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Catalan
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Catalan mes, from Latin mēnsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Occitan mes, French mois, Spanish mes.
Derived terms
Related terms
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Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Catalan mas, mays, from Latin magis.
Pronunciation
Participle
mes (feminine mesa, masculine plural mesos, feminine plural meses)
- past participle of metre
Etymology 4
Inherited from Vulgar Latin mās, reduced form of Latin meās.
Pronunciation
References
- “mes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mes”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mes” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mes
- Rhymes: -ɛs
- Homophone: Mesch
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ/, (in liaison) /mɛ.z‿/
- IPA(key): /me/, (in liaison) /me.z‿/
audio (file)
Determiner
mes pl
- my (when referring to a plural noun)
- Mes clés sont dans ma poche.
- My keys are in my pocket.
Related terms
Possessee | ||||||
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Singular | Plural | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | |||||
Possessor | Singular | First person | mon1 | ma | mes | |
Second person | ton1 | ta | tes | |||
Third person | son1 | sa | ses | |||
Plural | First person | notre | nos | |||
Second person | votre2 | vos2 | ||||
Third person | leur | leurs |
- 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
Descendants
- Louisiana Creole: mê
Further reading
- “mes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis. Compare Portuguese mês and Spanish mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmes/
References
- “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “mes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mes” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “mes” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Garo
Gothic
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛs]
- Hyphenation: mès
Etymology 1
From Dutch mess (“mess”), from English mess, from Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Doublet of misa.
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
Etymology 2
From English mesh, from Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- (engineering) mesh, structure or opening.
Etymology 3
From Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- (colloquial) artificial fertilizer.
Etymology 4
From Dutch mes (“blade”), from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Cognate of Japanese メス (mesu, “medical knife”) and Korean 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”).
Noun
mès (first-person possessive mesku, second-person possessive mesmu, third-person possessive mesnya)
- (surgery, colloquial) scalpel, blade, medical knife.
- Synonyms: bisturi, pisau bedah, pisau operasi, skalpel
- Kemudian tampak fasia, diinsisi dengan memberikan mes no 22 dan dijepit dengan memberikan pinset cirurgis. ― Fascia appeared, incised with 22 blade and clamped with surgical forceps.
- Berikan mes no 15 dan pinset chirurgi pada operator untuk insisi kulit sampai fasia. ― Give the blade 15 and surgical forceps to the operator for skin incision to the fascia.
Further reading
- “mes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Kalasha
Latgalian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes. Cognates include Latvian mēs and Lithuanian mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmʲæs]
- Hyphenation: mes
Declension
See also
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes, Proto-Slavic *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/
Declension
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singular (vienaskaita) | dual (dviskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | reflexive (sangrąžiniai) | ||||||||||||||||
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1st person (pirmasis asmuo) |
2nd person (antrasis asmuo) |
3rd person (trečiasis asmuo) |
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||||||||||
m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | ||||||||||
nominative (vardininkas) |
àš | tù | jìs, jisaĩ |
jì, jinaĩ |
mùdu | mùdvi | jùdu | jùdvi | juõdu, jiẽdu |
jiẽdvi | mẽs | jū̃s | jiẽ | jõs | - | ||||
genitive (kilmininkas) |
manę̃s | tavę̃s | jõ | jõs | mùdviejų | jùdviejų | jų̃dviejų | mū́sų | jū́sų | jų̃ | savę̃s | ||||||||
dative (naudininkas) |
mán | táu | jám | jái | mùdviem | jùdviem | jõdviem | mùms | jùms | jíems | jóms | sáu | |||||||
accusative (galininkas) |
manè | tavè | jį̃ | ją̃ | mùdu | mùdvi | jùdu | jùdvi | juõdu | jiẽdvi | mùs | jùs | juõs | jàs | savè | ||||
instrumental (įnagininkas) |
manimì, manim̃ | tavimì, tavim̃ | juõ | jà | mùdviem | jùdviem | jõdviem | mumìs | jumìs | jaĩs | jomìs | savimì, savim̃ | |||||||
locative (vietininkas) |
manyjè, manỹ | tavyjè, tavỹ | jamè | jojè | mùdviese | jùdviese | jiẽdviese | mumysè | jumysè | juosè | josè | savyjè, savỹ | |||||||
possessive (savybiniai) |
màno | tàvo | jõ | jõs | mùdviejų | jùdviejų | jų̃dviejų | mū́sų | jū́sų | jų̃ | sàvo |
Lombard
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin mensis (“month”). Compare French mois, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch main, Spanish mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mez/
Further reading
- mes at Lombard Wiktionary
Occitan
Old Galician-Portuguese
Further reading
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin mensis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French mois.
Descendants
- Occitan: mes
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mensis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 713
Old Prussian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wéy, with the initial m- appearing due to influence from the first-person verbal suffix and the first-person singular object pronoun. Cognate with Latvian mēs, Lithuanian mẽs, Proto-Slavic *my, Old Armenian մեք (mekʿ).
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin mēnsis (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmes/ [ˈmes]
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: mes
- IPA(key): (Murcia, , Eastern Andalusia) [mɛː]
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “mes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sumerian
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German mêse, meise, from Old Saxon mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːs/
Noun
mes c
Declension
Declension of mes | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mes | mesen | mesar | mesarna |
Genitive | mes | mesens | mesars | mesarnas |
Further reading
- mes in Svensk ordbok.
- mes in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
Zoogocho Zapotec
References
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38) (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 255