mes
Meaning
- (neuter) knife, cleaver
- (informal,neuter) blade
Frequency
Gender
Neuter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɛs/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).
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