Macedonian

Noun

мезе • ‎(meze) n

1. (colloquial) snack

Inflection

Moksha

Etymology

Of Proto-Uralic origin. Cognates include Erzya [script needed] ‎(meźe), Finnish mikä, Estonian mis, Livonian mis, Northern Sami [Term?] ‎(mii), Eastern Mari [script needed] ‎(mo), Komi-Zyrian [script needed] ‎(mi̮j), Udmurt ма ‎(ma), Khanty [script needed] ‎(mŭj), Mansi [script needed] ‎(manər), Hungarian mi.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mezʲæ/^[1]

Pronoun

мезе • ‎(meze)

1. (interrogative, relative) what
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, ISBN 978-5-91940-080-6

     нечего — аш мезе, аш месть‎

     nečego — aš meze, aš mestʹ

     nothing [in Russian] — nothing

     нечто — мезе-бъди, кати-мезе‎

     nečto — meze-bʺdi, kati-meze

     something [in Russian] — something

     ничто — мезевок‎

     ničto — mezevok

     nothing [in Russian] — nothing

     род — лия мезе (разновидность/специфика чего-либо)‎

     rod — lija meze (raznovidnostʹ/specifika čego-libo)

     type [in Russian] — type (variety/character of something [in Russian])

     ули мезенкса (заслуживать)‎

     uli mezenksa (zasluživatʹ)

     to be worth (to be worth [in Russian])

Declension

References

1. 1 2 mis in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, ISBN 978-9985-79-478-4

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• мѐза

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(meze) (Turkish meze), from Persian مزه ‎(maze, “taste, snack”). Akin to мезѐтлук.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /měze/
• Hyphenation: ме‧зе

Noun

мѐзе n ‎(Latin spelling mèze)

1. (regional) snack, bite

Declension

Derived terms

• мѐзетити
• замѐзетити

References

• “мезе” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 462