mish

See also: Mish

English

Etymology

Simple spoken contraction of mission.

Noun

mish (plural mishes)

  1. (Britain, slang) mission

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *miśśa < *meśśa, from Proto-Indo-European *memsa- (“meat”). Compare Armenian միս (mis), Serbo-Croatian meso, Russian мя́со (mjáso), Tocharian B mīsa, Old Prussian mensa, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz), Sanskrit मांस (māṃsá).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mish m (indefinite plural mishra, definite singular mishi, definite plural mishrat)

  1. flesh; meat
  2. flesh, naked skin

Derived terms

References
  1. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 219.

Manx

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɪʃ/

Etymology

From Old Irish messe.

Pronoun

mish

  1. First person singular emphatic personal pronoun; I, me.
    • Creid mish! Believe me!
    • Mish lhiat! The same here!
  • mee (non-emphatic)
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