"me" meaning in Middle English

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Determiner

Forms: I [nominative]
  1. Alternative form of mi. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: mi
    Sense id: en-me-enm-det-v7qpfIt5 Categories (other): Middle English pronouns, Middle English determiners Disambiguation of Middle English pronouns: 30 33 19 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Pronoun

IPA: /meː/ Forms: I [nominative]
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: From Old English mē, from Proto-Indo-European. More at English me. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|mē}} Old English mē, {{der-lite/lang|enm|ine-pro|allow family=1|sort=}} Proto-Indo-European, {{der-lite|enm|ine-pro|-}} Proto-Indo-European, {{str left|me|1}} m, {{str left|me|1}} m, {{l-lite|en|me}} me
  1. me (first-person singular accusative pronoun)
    Sense id: en-me-enm-pron-kpBmoNi2 Categories (other): Middle English pronouns Disambiguation of Middle English pronouns: 30 33 19 19
  2. (reflexive) myself Tags: reflexive
    Sense id: en-me-enm-pron-4G4wm2az Categories (other): Middle English reflexive pronouns, Middle English personal pronouns, Middle English pronouns Disambiguation of Middle English personal pronouns: 38 62 Disambiguation of Middle English pronouns: 30 33 19 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Related terms: I, ich, ik, minmi1, min, þou, þe, þinþi1, þin, he, himhine2, him, his, hishisen, sche, heo, hireheo, hire, hirehires, hiren, hit, hithim2, , wit, unk, unker, ȝit, inc, inker, we, us, ous, oure, oureoures, ouren, ye, yow, your, youryoures, youren, hemhe2, hem, here, hereheres, heren, þei, þem, þeim, þeir, þeirþeires, þeiren

Pronoun

Etymology: From man, men, by way of phonemic reduction in unstressed positions. Etymology templates: {{str left|man|1}} m, {{str left|man|1}} m, {{m-lite|enm|man}} man, {{str left|men|1}} m, {{str left|men|1}} m, {{m-lite|enm|men}} men
  1. Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite). Related terms: man, ei
    Sense id: en-me-enm-pron-36yc-Qq4 Categories (other): Middle English pronouns Disambiguation of Middle English pronouns: 30 33 19 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3
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Download raw JSONL data for me meaning in Middle English (4.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.