mi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/

• Audio (GA)

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: me

Etymology 1

From Latin mīra, from the first word of the third line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Noun

mi (uncountable)

1. (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

Translations

See mi/translations § Noun.

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mi

1. Alternative form of mi. .

Anagrams

• 'im, I'm, IM, Im, im-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Verb

mi

1. to come

References

• Leenhardt, M., Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie, 1935. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M., Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie, 1946. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

mi

1. my

See also

• im

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *mūh-, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with Latin mūs, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), and the like.^[1]

Noun

mi m (indefinite plural minj, definite singular miu, definite plural minjtë)

1. mouse

Declension

See also

• miu i gjirizeve
• micë

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩː/

Noun

mi

1. bone

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

Noun

mi

1. water

Further reading

• Roger Blench, Ampari Pa, a Dogon language in Northern Mali and its affinities (2005)

Noun

mi

1. water

Further reading

• E R Ribeiro, Nimuendajú Was Right: The Inclusion of the Jabutí Language Family (IJAL)

Etymology

From Latin me, accusative singular of ego. Compare Romanian mă.

Pronoun

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

1. me (accusative)
2. (reflexive) myself

   Mi-ashedz.

   I sit (seat myself).

Related terms

• mini
• io/iou

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. water

References

• Ehret, Christopher, A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎^[1], Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001, →ISBN, ISSN 0720-0986.

Pronoun

mi

1. by us, of us
2. Our—exclusive of person spoken to.

   harong mi

   our house

   Synonym: niamo

Etymology

From English me

Pronoun

mi

1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
2. my (first-person singular possessive)
   • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎^[2], →ISBN, page 344:

     Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Usage notes

Mi is often placed before a noun to mean my in high-register speech, but in low-register speech, blong mi is placed after the noun to achieve the same meaning.

Etymology

From Latin medius.

Noun

mi m (mis)

1. noon, midday

   El ât mi, noutre ovreire é dressai lai sope

   It's noon, our worker has prepared the soup

Synonyms

• mairande
• meidi
• mijor
• pregneire

References

• Thomas Mignard (1870). Vocabulaire raisonné et comparé du dialecte et du patois de la province de Bourgogne.

Particle

mi

1. ᨆᨗ: which means only, e.g. ᨉᨘᨕᨆᨗ /duaːmi/ means only two.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

Etymology 1

From Latin mihi, through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. me; post preposition form of jo

Declension

See Template:ca-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Etymology 2

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

1. (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 3

Noun

mi f (plural mis)

1. mu; the Appendix:Greek alphabet letter Μ (lowercase μ).

Verb

mi

1. (transitive, copulative) to be (precedes the adjective or adverb)

Etymology

From Latin me. Cognates include Italian me, mi and Sicilian mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

See also

References

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

1. mine; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
2. my

See also

• to
• nuester
• vestro

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

mi f (plural mi's)

1. (music) mi

Romanization

mi

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

Etymology

From Italian mi, French moi, English me, etc., plus the i of personal pronouns.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi (first-person singular nominative, accusative min, possessive mia)

1. I, the one who is speaking, me, myself

   Mi vidas lin.

   I see him.

   Li donis la hundon al mi.

   He gave the dog to me.

   Mi diris al mi.

   I said to myself.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ/

Pronoun

mi

1. you (plural)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: mi

Etymology

See mikä.

Pronoun

mi

1. (poetic) Synonym of mikä (“what”)

Declension

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

mi m (plural mi)

1. (music) mi, the note 'E'.

Further reading

• “mi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative of ego. As an indirect objective, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin * mi.

Pronoun

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

1. (direct object) me
2. (indirect object) to me
3. (reflexive) myself

Related terms

• jo

Pronoun

mi

1. I (first person singular subject pronoun; short form)

Usage notes

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).
• Used in all conjugations except the affirmative non-accomplished, where the long form is used instead.

See also

• miɗo (second person singular subject pronoun; long form), hilan (variant used in the Pular dialect of Futa Jalon)
• min (emphatic form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me (first-person pronoun; refers to the person speaking)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

1. (music) mi (musical note)
2. (music) E (the musical note or key)

See also

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me-, *h₁me-n- (“me”).

Pronoun

mī

1. I; first-person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

Inflection

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Patricia Lillie, Girawa Dictionary

Verb

mi

1. have

Noun

mi

1. cat

Etymology

From Portuguese mim. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. I (first person singular)
2. me
3. my

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -mi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronoun

mi

1. (personal) we

Declension

Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, mi is optional and only serves for emphasis.

• mialattunk, mielőttünk etc. (mi + a postposition with the first-person plural personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
• minekünk, mihozzánk etc. (mi + one of the declined forms listed in the table above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

Alternative forms

• mink (dialectal)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

Interjection

mi

1. (poetic) how …!, what (a) …!

   Mi gyönyörűség! ― What beauty!

Synonyms

• mily (also poetic)
• milyen (normal use)
• micsoda (normal, somewhat colloquial)
• minő (poetic and archaic)

Pronoun

mi

1. (interrogative) what?

   Mi van a kezedben? ― What is in your hand?

2. (after van or nincs in any tense and mood, followed by an infinitive) something, anything, nothing

   Nincs mit hozzátennem. ― I have nothing to add.

   Még szerencse, hogy volt mit enni! ― It's lucky there was something to eat!

   Örülnék, ha lenne mit nézni a tévében. ― I would be glad if there were something to watch on TV.

   Van mire tenni a vázát? ― Is there anything to put the vase on?

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

solmisation

mi (plural mik)

2. mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)

   Coordinate terms: dó, ré, fá, szó, lá, ti

Further reading

• solfège hand signs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi]
• Hyphenation: mi

Etymology 1

From Malay mi (“noodle”), from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī, “noodle, flour”).

Noun

mi (plural, first-person possessive miku, second-person possessive mimu, third-person possessive minya)

1. (food) noodle.

Etymology 2

From Latin mīra, from the first word of the third line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Noun

mi (plural, first-person possessive miku, second-person possessive mimu, third-person possessive minya)

1. (music) mi, a syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

Further reading

• “mi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Determiner

mi

1. (possessive) my

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Etymology 1

From Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me-. As an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a form mi.

Alternative forms

• -mi (enclitic)

Pronoun

mi (first person, objective case)

1. me
2. (dative) (to) me

   (Lui/Lei) non mi piace. / Non mi piace (lui/lei). ― (He/She/It) not likes to me. / I do not like (him/her/it). / To me not likes (he/she/it).

   (Lui/Lei) mi piace. / Mi piace (lui/lei). ― (He/She/It) likes to me. / I like (him/her/it). / To me likes (he/she/it).

   Synonym: a me

Usage notes

Becomes me when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

See Template:Italian personal pronouns for more pronouns.

Etymology 2

Noun

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

mi

Wikipedia ^it

mi

1. (music) The third note, mi.
2. E (musical note or key)

Etymology 3

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

1. mu (Greek letter)

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ/

Pronoun

mi

1. I

   Mi did tink seh a ongle di out a order taxi driver dem wuda beks wid mi.

   I thought only the disrespectful taxi drivers would have been upset with me.

2. me

   Mi swear blind seh everybody wuda difen mi.

   I genuinely thought everybody would have come to my defence.

Related terms

• yuh
• im
• har
• shi
• wi
• unnu
• dem

References

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 377
• mi – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Romanization

mi

1. Rōmaji transcription of み
2. Rōmaji transcription of ミ

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me, my

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Pronoun

mi

1. what

Pronoun

mi

1. second person plural independent pronoun

See also

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Numeral

mi

1. four

References

• Mark Wannemacher, A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University., 2011

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /miː/, [miː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi/, [mi]

Pronoun

mī

1. vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

mī

1. (poetic, syncopated) dative singular of egō

References

• mi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• mi in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• mi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mi in Ramminger, Johann, Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016, retrieved 16 July 2016

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative of egō (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō (accusative *mē), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂, (accusative *m̥(m)é ~ me).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me

See also

• ti
• lê
• noî, niâtri
• voî, viâtri
• lô, liâtri

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-mre¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Burmese မြေ (mre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi³³]

Noun

mi 

1. (Yao'an) ground, land, dirt

Alternative forms

• my (older orthography)
• mie
• mek, meck, mik, mick (Eastphalian)
• mui (Eastwestphalian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Etymology

From Middle Low German mî from Old Saxon mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

mi

1. me (dative of ik)
2. me (accusative of ik)

Usage notes

• Some Low German dialects in southern Westphalia differentiate between dative mi and accusative mik.^[1][2]

References

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. what

Etymology

From Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

Noun

mi (Jawi spelling مي‎, informal 1st possessive miku, impolite 2nd possessive mimu, 3rd possessive minya)

1. noodle

Romanization

mi

1. Nonstandard spelling of mī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mì.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

• Dutch: mij, me
  • Afrikaans: my
• Limburgish: mir

Alternative forms

• my, mie, me

Etymology

Apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiː/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /mi/

Determiner

mi (nominative I)

1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my.

Usage notes

mi is usually used before a consonant (other than h-), while min is usually used before a vowel or h-, much as with Modern English an/a.

Related terms

• min

Descendants

• English: my
• Scots: my, ma

References

• “min, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology

From Old Saxon mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/

Pronoun

mî

1. (first person singular dative) me
2. (first person singular accusative) me

Declension

See Template:gml-perpron for declension.

Descendants

• Low German: my, mie, mui
  • German Low German: mi

    Plautdietsch: mie

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Etymology

Related to Dâw miʔ (“in (liquid)”).

Noun

mi

1. water

Synonyms

• naʔɤy

References

• Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics (Aikhenvald, Dixon), citing Martins (1994)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

Pronoun

mi

1. me

Etymology

From Old Norse mín.

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Determiner

mi

1. feminine singular of min

References

• “mi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old Norse mín.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/ (example of pronunciation)

Determiner

mi

1. feminine singular of min

References

• “mi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronoun

mǐ`

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

See also

Alternative forms

• mē

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

mī

1. accusative/dative of ik

Inflection

See Template:ofs-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Descendants

• North Frisian: me
• Saterland Frisian: mie
• West Frisian: my

Alternative forms

• mik (for the accusative)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

mī

1. dative/accusative of ik

Declension

See Template:osx-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Descendants

• Middle Low German: mi
  • Low German: my, mie, mui
    • German Low German: mi

      Plautdietsch: mie

Etymology

From Spanish mi.

Adjective

mi

1. my

Usage notes

Placed after the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Panim Talking Dictionary

Alternative forms

• ami (synonym)

Etymology

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me, my.

Etymology

From English me

Pronoun

mi

1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
   • 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu‎^[5], page 41:

     Mi wande stori lebebet abaot tupela man blong America hemi foldaon long Baolo.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

See also

Alternative forms

• (stressed) mnie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲi/

• Audio

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Pronoun

mi

1. dative singular mute of ja

   Daj mi rękę. ― Give me your hand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
• Hyphenation: mi
• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Latin mi[ra] in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

1. mi (musical note)

Coordinate terms

• (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mi

1. Obsolete form of mim.

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Etymology

From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

mi

1. I
2. me

Derived terms

• mise (emphatic)

See also

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîː/

Pronoun

mȋ (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

1. we (nominative plural of jȃ (“I”))
2. we (vocative plural of jȃ (“I”))

Declension

Pronoun

mi (Cyrillic spelling ми)

1. to me (clitic dative singular of jȃ (“I”))
2. (emphatic, possessive, dative) my, of mine (clitic dative singular of jȃ (“I”))

   Gdje mi je auto?

   Where is my car?

Declension

Noun

mi

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Alternative forms

• mne

Pronoun

mi

1. dative of ja

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /míː/

Pronoun

mȋ

1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

Inflection

See also

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/
• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

Adjective

mi (first-person singular possessive singular, plural mis)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of mío, my

Usage notes

The forms mi and mis are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of mío is used instead.

Son mis libros. ― They are my books.

Los libros son míos. ― The books are mine.

Besides being a pronoun, because mi occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

Related terms

Template:Spanish possessive adjectives

Etymology 2

Noun

mi f (plural míes)

1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ

   Synonym: mu

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. I
2. me
3. my

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. what

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors, Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, 2002-2008

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me. First person pronoun; refers to the person speaking.

See also

See Template:tpi-personal pronouns for more pronouns.

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

1. me

See also

• ai

Particle

mi

1. Used to form interrogatives.

   Bugün okula gittin mi?

   Did you go to school today?

   Evli misin?

   Are you married?

Usage notes

• Personal suffixes are added to the interrogative particles, as well as the past tense suffixes.
• This form is used when the last vowel of the previous word is "i" or "e". Other forms used with different vowels are: mu?, mü? and mı?

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)

1. what (interrogative)

Inflection

Derived terms

• mi-se
• koje-mi
• nimi

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

mi

1. than (in comparisons)

Synonyms

• ku

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I., “чем, что”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[7], Petrozavodsk: Periodika, 2007

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]

Etymology 1

Short for lông mi, from Proto-Vietic *k-piːl or *ɓiːlʔ (“eyelid”), a cognate with mí (“eyelid”); compare Chinese 眉 (“eyebrows”) with Sino-Vietnamese reading mi, from which mày (“eyebrows”) derives.

Noun

mi • (眉)

1. eyelashes

Synonyms

• lông mi

Related terms

• mày

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *miː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *miiʔ. See also mày.

Alternative forms

• mày
• mầy

Pronoun

mi • (𠋥)

1. (archaic, literary) you (second person singular pronoun)
2. (chiefly Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) you (second person singular pronoun, referring to a person held in low esteem)

Related terms

• ta
• tau
• tao

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi

Noun

mi

1. (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

   đô, rê, mi

   do, re, mi

Etymology 4

Probably from French bise

Verb

mi

1. (slang) to kiss

Synonyms

• hôn; hun; thơm

Pronoun

mi

1. me
2. my

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”). Cognate to Cornish my, Breton me, Irish mé, Scottish Gaelic mi and Manx mee.

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me

   Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi

   The old land of my fathers is dear to me.

   Rhaid i mi fynd i weld Taid.

   I have to go and see Granddad.

Usage notes

Mi is typically heard only after the preposition i (“to, for”) in formal language and in northern colloquial language. In southern colloquial language the form fi is used after the preposition i.

See also

• fi (“I, me”)
• i (“I, me”)

Particle

mi

1. a particle used with verbs other than bod to mark affirmative statements.

Usage notes

Mi triggers the soft mutation on the following verb. It is more common in the north; in the south, fe is used instead.

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Pronoun

mi

1. my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

See also

Pronoun

Lua error: not enough memory

1. Lua error: not enough memory

Etymology

From Lua error: not enough memory. Cognate with Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory, Lua error: not enough memory.

Pronunciation

• Lua error: not enough memory

Noun

Lua error: not enough memory

1. pubic hair

   Lua error: not enough memory

Lua error: not enough memory

Noun

Lua error: not enough memory

1. human, human being

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.

Lua error: not enough memory

Pronoun

Lua error: not enough memory

1. Combining stem of Lua error: not enough memory.

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.

Lua error: not enough memory

Verb

Lua error: not enough memory

1. to be standing

Inflection

This verb needs an [[:Category:Lua error: not enough memory verb inflection-table templates|inflection-table template]].

Lua error: not enough memory

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi, Lua error: not enough memory”, in Lua error: not enough memory, 1972, →ISBNLua error: not enough memoryExpression error: Unexpected < operator.