mey

From Old Norse mey.

• IPA^(key): /meiː/
• Rhymes: -eiː

mey f (genitive singular meyjar, nominative plural meyjar)

1. maiden
2. virgin

• mær

• María mey
• meydómur (“virginity”)
• afmeyja (“deflower”)

mey f (genitive meyjar, dative meyju, plural meyjar)

1. Alternative form of mær

• (Teotepeque) -may

From Proto-Nahuan *maː(y)(V)-. Compare Classical Nahuatl māitl (“hand”). Cognate with Yaqui mamam, Hopi maa('at), Shoshone mo', and Cahuilla -mal.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /mej/, /meːj/

-mēy (plural -mejmēy)

1. hand (including hand and forearm)

   Tay tikpia tik mumey?

   What do you have in your hand?

2. branch

   Nemi se tutut pak ne imey uni kwawit

   There is a bird on that tree's branch

3. handle

   Shikwi yek ne imey ne metat pal titisi

   Hold the metate's handle well so you can grind

• (branch): -majtzal

• mā- (combining form)

• IPA^(key): [məi]

mey (plural meys)

1. hawthorn flower

• may, ma

mey (past tense micht)

1. may

Generally replaced by can

mey

1. Alternative form of mye
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:

     Nore zichel ne'er well, nowe, nore ne'er mey.

     Nor such never will, no (now), nor never may.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86