mees

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See also: Mees and meés

English

Noun

mees

  1. plural of mee

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mees.

Noun

mees (plural mese)

  1. tit, chickadee

Dutch

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch mêse, from Old Dutch *mēsa, from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (“chickadee, titmouse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mees
  • Rhymes: -eːs

Noun

mees f (plural mezen, diminutive meesje n)

  1. tit, bird of the family Paridae
    De mees zat op een tak te zingen.
    The tit sat on a branch singing.
    Hij zag een mees in zijn tuin.
    He saw a tit in his garden.
    Ze voedt de mezen in de winter met vogelzaad.
    She feeds the tits in the winter with bird seed.

Derived terms

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia et
mees

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈmeːs]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːs
  • Hyphenation: mees

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *mēgaz (earlier Proto-Finnic *meexes), compare Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌲𐍃 (mēgs, “son-in-law”), Old English mǣġ (“relative”) and Old Norse mágr (“male relative”), although this proposal is questionable for phonetic reasons. Cognate with Finnish mies, Livonian mīez, Votic meez, Ingrian mees, Livvi mies, Ludian miez and Veps mez'.

Noun

mees (genitive mehe, partitive meest)

  1. man (an adult male human)
    Synonyms: (emphasising their gender) meesterahvas, meesisik
    Hypernym: inimene
    Kui palju on teie kolleegide hulgas mehi?
    How many of your colleagues are men?
  2. husband (a woman's spouse, consort or sexual partner)
    Hypernym: abikaasa
    Tema endine mees on ohvitser.
    Her ex-husband/boyfriend is a military officer.
  3. (without specific reference to gender) human, person
    Tegin ausa mehe näo pähe.
    I put on the face of an honest person.
Declension
Declension of mees (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative mees mehed
accusative nom.
gen. mehe
genitive meeste
partitive meest mehi
illative mehesse meestesse
mehisse
inessive mehes meestes
mehis
elative mehest meestest
mehist
allative mehele meestele
mehile
adessive mehel meestel
mehil
ablative mehelt meestelt
mehilt
translative meheks meesteks
mehiks
terminative meheni meesteni
essive mehena meestena
abessive meheta meesteta
comitative mehega meestega
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
adjectives
nouns
verbs
Compounds

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mees

  1. inessive singular of mesi

References

  • mees in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “mees”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Ingrian

Mees.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *mees. Cognates include Finnish mies and Estonian mees.

Pronunciation

Noun

mees

  1. man
    • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 70:
      Mees oli viijenkymmenän voovven ikkäin.
      The man was fifty years old.
    • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:
      A teen äärees istuu mees adran pääl.
      And next to it a man sits on top of a plough.
  2. husband
Declension
Declension of mees (type 2/mees, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mees meehet
genitive meehen meehiin
partitive meestä, meest meehiä
illative meehee meehii
inessive meehees meehiis
elative meehest meehist
allative meehelle meehille
adessive meeheel meehiil
ablative meehelt meehilt
translative meeheks meehiks
essive meehennä, meeheen meehinnä, meehiin
exessive1) meehent meehint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
Soikkola declension of mees (type 2/mees, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mees meehet
genitive meehen meehiin
partitive meestä, meest meehiä
illative meehee meehii
inessive meehees meehiis
elative meeheest meehiist
allative meehelle meehille
adessive meeheel meehiil
ablative meeheelt meehiilt
translative meeheeks meehiiks
essive meeheen meehiin
exessive1) meeheent meehiint
1) Obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

mees

  1. inessive singular of mesi

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790) “мїезъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 308
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[3], →ISBN, page 80

Latin

Verb

meēs

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of meō

Spanish

Verb

mees

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of mear
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