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ME

name
/miː/CA/mi/US/mɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”.

  1. derived from *h₁me-✻ — “me”
  2. inherited from *miz✻ — “me”
  3. inherited from *miʀ✻
  4. inherited from me — “me”
  5. inherited from me

Definitions

  1. Abbreviation of Maine

    Abbreviation of Maine: a state of the United States.

  2. Abbreviation of Middle East

    Abbreviation of Middle East: a geographic region of West Asia, additionally including Turkey, as well as Egypt in North Africa.

  3. Initialism of Middle English.

  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of Me (“Windows Me (Millennium Edition)”).

    2. Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a…

      Initialism of Montreal Exchange, a futures and derivatives exchange (formerly also a stock exchange).

    3. Initialism of Mass Effect.

    4. Earth mass

      Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.

    5. The mass of the Earth specifically.

    6. Initialism of master of engineering.

    7. Initialism of managing editor.

    8. Initialism of medical examiner.

      • The little M.E.’s man nodded, picked his bag off the deck and went back up the steps to the pier.

    9. Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.

    10. Initialism of marriage encounter.

    11. Initialism of main engine.

    12. The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).

      • Can you hear me?
      • He gave me this.
      • Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, haſt holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.

    13. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the…

      Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

      • Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.
      • Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)
      • Who said that? —(It was) not me.

    14. I, the first-person singular, as the subject.

      • Me and my friends played a game.
      • [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
      • Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.

    15. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.

    16. Alternative form of my.

      • There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)
      • I want me money back!
      • Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!

    17. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

    18. Indefinite pronoun (usually singular)

      Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.

    19. Abbreviation of methyl.

    20. Windows Me (Millennium Edition).

    21. Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important…

      Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ME. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA