I know it's a monosyllabic sound, three phonemes, doesn't amount to much significance that two separate languages could produce an identitcal sound. But just take a moment to admire the irony that 'meh' has been reconstructed in Proto-Indo-European studies to mean 'absolutely not'.
'dhídhēmi-dh∂kjō tū sṇtējō Madonna moghō kanō?'
'meh'
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