mes

→ Zulu: umese

Fanagalo: mes (or directly)

From Dutch mes, from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).


mes

sq-noun

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

mese (plural)
mesi (definite)
meset (definite plural)
mes (indefinite nominative singular)
mesi (definite nominative singular)
mese (indefinite nominative plural)
meset (definite nominative plural)
mes (accusative indefinite singular)
mesin (accusative definite singular)
mese (accusative indefinite plural)
meset (accusative definite plural)
mesi (dative indefinite singular)
mesit (dative definite singular)
meseve (dative indefinite plural)
meseve (dative definite plural)
mesi (ablative indefinite singular)
mesit (ablative definite singular)
mesesh (ablative indefinite plural)
meseve (ablative definite plural)

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.


mes

Inherited from Old Catalan mes, from Latin mēnsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Compare Occitan mes, French mois, Spanish mes.


mes

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, mays, from Latin magis.


mes

ca-pp

mes (feminine mesa, masculine plural mesos, feminine plural meses)

mesa (feminine)
mesos (masculine plural)
meses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Latin missus, perfect passive participle of mittere.


mes

Inherited from Vulgar Latin mās, reduced form of Latin meās.


mes

From Proto-Celtic *magestus, from *magos.


mes

From Proto-Celtic *messus (“acorn”). Cognate with Welsh mes (“acorns”), Breton mez (“acorns”).


mes

nl-noun

mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)

messen (plural)
mesje (diminutive neuter)

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Afrikaans: mes
→ Zulu: umese
Fanagalo: mes (or directly)

Berbice Creole Dutch: mesi

Jersey Dutch: määs

Negerhollands: mes

Skepi Creole Dutch: masa

→ Indonesian: mes (“medical knife”)

→ Japanese: メス (mesu, “medical knife”)

→ Korean: 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”)

→ Loup A: meschu (from the diminutive form)

→ Malagasy: méso, mésa

From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).


mes

If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?


mes

Alternative form of mos, masculine plural of mon


mes

Mes clés sont dans ma poche.

1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel

For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man

Louisiana Creole: mê

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


mes

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis. Compare Portuguese mês and Spanish mes.


mes

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.


mes

(engineering) mesh, structure or opening.

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”).


mes

From Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).


mes

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.

(surgery, colloquial) scalpel, blade, medical knife.

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”).


mes

es (nominative singular)
mes (nominative plural)
mane (genitive singular)
mani (genitive singular)
myusu (genitive plural)
maņ (dative singular)
mums (dative plural)
mani (accusative singular)
myus (accusative plural)
manī (locative singular)
myusūs (locative plural)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes. Cognates include Latvian mēs and Lithuanian mes.


mes

(dialectal, archaic) we; alternative form of mēs


mes

mẽs (canonical)
àš (nominative singular)
mùdu m (dual nominative)
mùdvi f (dual nominative)
mẽs (nominative plural)
manę̃s (genitive singular)
mùdviejų (dual genitive)
mū́sų (genitive plural)
mán (dative singular)
mùdviem (dative dual)
mùms (dative plural)
manè (accusative singular)
mùdu m (accusative dual)
mùdvi f (accusative dual)
mùs (accusative plural)
manimì (instrumental singular)
manim̃ (instrumental singular)
mùdviem (dual instrumental)
mumìs (instrumental plural)
manyjè (locative singular)
manỹ (locative singular)
mùdviese (dual locative)
mumysè (locative plural)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes; compare Latvian mēs, Old Prussian mes, Proto-Slavic *my; akin to Old Armenian մեք (mekʻ). 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-.


mes

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


mes

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


mes

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


mes

mes (nominative singular)
mesa (nominative plural)
mese (nominative plural)
mese (accusative singular)
mesa (accusative plural)
mese (accusative plural)
mese (genitive singular)
mesa (genitive plural)
mese (dative singular)
mesum (dative plural)

Uncertain. Perhaps derived from Proto-West Germanic *mihsu, the nominative/accusative plural of *mihs (“dung, excrement; urine”), reanalysed as a singular noun. Compare Old Frisian mēse (“urine”).


mes

French: mais


mes

French: mes


mes

Muitos gafos sãou a Emperadriz en aquele mes;
mas de grand' algo que porên lle davan ela ren non pres,
mas andou en muitas romarías, e depois ben a tres
meses entrou na cidade de Roma, u ér' o cortês
Emperador, que a chamou e disso-lle: “Ves?
Guári-m' est' irmão gaf', e dar-ch-ei grand' haver.”

a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , cantiga 5 ([ facsimile]), lines 135–140:

Fala: mes

Galician: mes

Portuguese: mês


mes

mes
also mmes after a proclitic
ending in a vowel


mes

head

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

mes (oblique plural)
mes (nominative singular)
mes (nominative plural)

Occitan: mes

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


mes

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 (mekʻ).


mes

Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mês.


mes

Mi mes favorito es enero.

Inherited from Latin mēnsis (“month”). Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais.


mes

mes (indefinite nominative singular)
mes (genitive indefinite singular)
mesen (definite nominative singular)
mesens (definite genitive singular)
mesar (indefinite nominative plural)
mesars (genitive indefinite plural)
mesarna (definite nominative plural)
mesarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Middle Low German mêse, meise, from Old Saxon mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål meis, meise and Norwegian Nynorsk meis, meise.


mes

From Old Swedish mes, mese, likely derived from a verb cognate of Icelandic meita (“cut, chop”). Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål meis and Norwegian Nynorsk meis.


mes

(colloquial, derogatory) a wimp, a wuss, a coward

Cognate to Norwegian meis and Dutch miezel.


mes

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.