mene

Noun

mene (plural menes)

1. The high middle singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition, corresponding roughly to the alto.
   • 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:

     He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.

   • 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:

     The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

   • 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:

     The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.

See also

• mene mene tekel upharsin (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• -neme, em- -en, neem

Noun

mene

1. dog

References

• Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 156

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

mene f (plural menj, definite articulation mena)

1. Alternative form of mãnã

Noun

mene

1. berry, small fruit

Etymology

From Middle Low German meinen, mēnen (“to mean”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, cognate with English mean, Dutch menen, German meinen (Icelandic meina and Swedish mena are also borrowed from Low German).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːnə/, [ˈmeːnə]

Verb

mene (past tense mente, past participle ment)

1. to mean (to have a certain meaning in mind)

   Hvad mener du med det?

   What do you mean by that?

2. to think, hold, consider

References

• “mene” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

mene

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of menen

Anagrams

• meen, neem, neme

Verb

mene

1. inflection of mennä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Noun

mene m

1. locative singular of menas
2. vocative singular of menas

Etymology

By surface analysis, -men (animate noun classifier/indefinite marker) +‎ -e (1st person singular demonstrative suffix)

Demonstrative

mene

1. this (animate noun near the speaker)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen(ə)/

Pronoun

méne

1. me (after preposition)

Alternative forms

• meine (Nynorsk also)

Etymology

From Old Norse meina and Middle Low German menen, meinen.

Verb

mene (imperative men, present tense mener, passive menes, simple past mente, past participle ment, present participle menende)

1. to mean
2. to think

References

• “mene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• myne

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *manī, *manni, from Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”). Cognate with Old High German menni (“necklace”), Old Norse men (“necklace, jewelry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.ne/

Noun

mene m

1. necklace, collar
2. ornament, jewel

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me‧ne

Noun

mene m (plural menes)

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of meme

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeɲe]

Noun

mene f

1. dative/locative singular of mena

Noun

mene n

1. locative singular of meno

Verb

mene

1. inflection of menar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology

From me (3rd singular pronoun) +‎ ne (“this”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.ˈn̪e/

Determiner

mene

1. (proximal, emphatic) this, these

   Synonyms: ne, nema

   Antonym: mema

   niam do loka mene yo ― do not eat this banana

Pronoun

mene

1. (proximal) this, these

   Antonym: mema

   mene de ti pala ― this is my house

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as mené)