mezi

• mëzi, memzi

From me +‎ zi, from an earlier expression me të zi. Alternatively from memzi, from mem, a participal form of mej.

mezi (originally Tosk)

1. hardly, scarcely

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *meďi, locative singular of *meďa, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Cognate with Polish między and miedzy, Slovak medzi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛzɪ]

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mezi [with instrumental]

1. between
2. among

   Mezi slepými jednooký králem. ― Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

mezi f

1. dative/vocative/locative singular of mez

• “mezi”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mezi”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mezi”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

mezi

1. water

• Godwin A. M. Lewanika, English-Lozi Phrase Book (1949)
• Adolphe Jalla, Elementary Grammar of the Lozi Language (1937)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mɪ̀jédì.

mezi class 4

1. plural of mwezi.

From Proto-Finnic *meci.

mezi

1. honey

• mezikämen
• mezipeza
• medenkeradai
• medenkeraduz

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “мёд”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika