Where does “mees” come from?
mees (Afrikaans) comes from Dutch mees, from English Bartholomew, from Latin Bartholomaeus, from Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος, from Aramaic בַּר תַּלְמַי — son of Tolmai.
mees (Afrikaans): tit, chickadee
Ancestry of “mees”, step by step