mees

mees

1. plural of mee

From Dutch mees.

mees (plural mese)

1. tit, chickadee

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

• IPA^(key): /meːs/

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• Hyphenation: mees
• Rhymes: -eːs

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈmeːs]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːs
• Hyphenation: mees

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'.

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 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

• (male human): meesterahvas, meesisik
• (human, person): inimene
• (husband): abielumees, naisemees

• (antonym(s) of “male human”): naine
• (antonym(s) of “married man”): poissmees
• (antonym(s) of “husband”): naine, abielunaine

• (male human): inimene
• (husband): abikaasa

• naine

• poiss
• tüdruk

mees

1. inessive singular of mesi

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

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈmeːz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːs/, [ˈme̝ːʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -eːs
• Hyphenation: mees

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 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)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈme.esːæ/, [ˈme̞.e̞s̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈme.es/, [ˈme̞.e̞ʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -e.esː, -e.es
• Hyphenation: me‧es

mees

1. inessive singular of mesi

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “мїезъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи, Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ, 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

meēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of meō

mees

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of mear