Etymology

mee

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Today it means: Chinese-style wheat noodles. Full definition →

Middle English mee ← Old English mē
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mee · pronoun1

  1. Old English · inherited frommē“me”
  2. Middle English · inherited frommee
  3. English todaymee

From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.

mee · noun2

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵/面 (mī).

Mee · proper noun3

  1. Latin · derived frommansus
  2. Old French · derived frommeis“farmstead”
  3. English todayMee

* As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadhach (“honorable”). Compare Meehan, McNamee. * As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus. * (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

Words from the same roots

Old Englishmē all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.