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Definitions and meaning of mi

mi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miː/
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)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Alternative form of mi. .

Anagrams

'im, I'm, I. M., I.M., IM, Im, im-

Ajië

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mi]

Verb

to come

References

Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie. 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. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. 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.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *mūh-, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s (“mouse”).

Noun

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

mouse

Declension

Ama

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mĩː/

Noun

bone

Amele

Noun

louse

Ampari Dogon

Noun

water

Arikapú

Noun

water

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

me (accusative)
(reflexive) myself

Related terms

mini
io/iou

Bagupi

Noun

louse

Baimak

Noun

louse

Bau

Noun

louse

Berti

Noun

water

References

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

Bikol Central

Pronoun

by us, of us
Synonym: niato
Our—exclusive of person spoken to.

Synonym: niamo

Bislama

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
my (first-person singular possessive)

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.

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin medius.

Noun

mi m (mis)

noon, midday

Synonyms

mairande
meidi
mijor
pregneire

References

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

Buginese

Particle

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Latin mī.

Pronoun

me; post preposition form of jo

Declension

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

(music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 3

Noun

mi f (plural mis)

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

Chuukese

Verb

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

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

me (both direct and indirect subject)

References

https://infcor.adecec.net/

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

mine; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
my

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

mi f (plural mi's)

(music) mi

Egyptian

Romanization

Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

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

I, the one who is speaking, me, myself

Ewe

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ/

Pronoun

you (plural)

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

(poetic) Synonym of mikä (“what”)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

(music) mi, the note 'E'.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mē, and possibly, as an indirect object, in part from Latin mihi.

Pronoun

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

(direct object) me
(indirect object) to me
(reflexive) myself

Related terms

Fula

Pronoun

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.

Ga

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

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

Gal

Noun

louse

Galician

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

(music) mi (musical note)
(music) E (the musical note or key)

Garo

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”).

Noun

(botany) rice plant
rice

Garus

Noun

louse

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronoun

mī

I; first-person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

Inflection

Girawa

Noun

louse

Guerrero Amuzgo

Verb

have

Noun

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

I (first person singular)
me
my

Gumalu

Noun

louse

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmi]
Rhymes: -mi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronoun

(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

(poetic) how …!, what (a) …!

Synonyms

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

Pronoun

(interrogative) what?
(after van or nincs in any tense and mood, followed by an infinitive) something, anything, nothing

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 3

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

Noun

mi (plural mik)

mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)
Coordinate terms: dó, ré, fá, szó, lá, ti

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

or (as a means of distinction from the inflection of the interrogative pronoun)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmi]
Hyphenation: mi

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

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

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

Interlingua

Determiner

(possessive) my

Isebe

Noun

louse

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mē and, as an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi.

Alternative forms

-mi (enclitic)

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi (first person, objective case)

me
(dative) (to) me

Synonym: a me

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/, /ˈmi/^*
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: mì

Noun

(music) the third note, mi
E (musical note or key)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/^*
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: mì

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

mu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

References

mi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ/
Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

Related terms

yuh
im
har
shi
wi
unnu
dem

Japanese

Romanization

Rōmaji transcription of み
Rōmaji transcription of ミ

Jarawa

Etymology

Cognate to Önge mi (“I; me”). Not related to English.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

I; we (both singular and plural first-person pronoun, usually not as the object of the verb)

Usage notes

The pronoun mi can be used in both the nominative and accusative case, but it is less common than ma for the latter. When used in possessive constructions, the choice of pronoun is largely determined by vowel harmony.

References

Kumar, Pramod (2012). Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 76—85.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

I, me, my

Kare (New Guinea)

Noun

louse

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

Pronoun

what?
which, that

Declension

Synonyms

(relative pronoun): ku, kumpani

References

P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 60

Laboya

Pronoun

second person plural independent pronoun

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/, [mi˧]

Numeral

four

Alternative forms

myit

References

Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[6], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 36

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mī

vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

mī

(poetic, syncopated) dative singular of egō

References

mi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
mi in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
mi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
mi in Ramminger, Johann (accessed July 16, 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[7], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

I, me

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

what?
which?

References

Tatjana Boiko (2019), “mi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

Lolopo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mi³³]

Noun

(Yao'an) ground, land, dirt

Low German

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

me (dative of ik)
me (accusative of ik)

Usage notes

Some Low German dialects in southern Westphalia differentiate between dative mi and accusative mik.

References

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

what

Malay

Etymology

From Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

Noun

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

noodle

Mandarin

Romanization

Nonstandard spelling of mī.
Nonstandard spelling of mí.
Nonstandard spelling of mǐ.
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.

Matepi

Noun

louse

Mawan

Noun

louse

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

Dutch: mij, me
- Afrikaans: my
- Jersey Dutch: māi
- Negerhollands: mi, mie
Limburgish: mir

Middle English

Alternative forms

my, mie, me

Etymology

Apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.).

Pronunciation

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

Determiner

mi (nominative I)

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 vs a.

Related terms

Descendants

English: my
Scots: my, ma

References

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

Middle Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miː/

Pronoun

mî

(first person singular dative) me
(first person singular accusative) me

Declension

See Template:gml-perpron for declension.

Descendants

Low German: my, mie, mui
- German Low German: mi
  Plautdietsch: mie

Mosimo

Noun

louse

Munit

Noun

louse

Murupi

Noun

louse

Nadëb

Etymology

Related to Dâw miʔ (“in (liquid)”).

Noun

water

Synonyms

naʔɤy

References

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

Nake

Noun

louse

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

North Frisian

Pronoun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mín.

Pronunciation

Determiner

feminine singular of min

References

“mi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mín f.

Determiner

mi f

feminine singular of min

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mi m (definite singular mi-en, indefinite plural mi-ar, definite plural mi-ane)

(music) mi, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

Coordinate terms

(scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, so (or sol), la, ti (or si), do

References

“mi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

Nzadi

Pronoun

mǐ`

I (first-person singular pronoun)

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

mī

accusative/dative of ik

Inflection

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

Descendants

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

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

mik (for the accusative)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

mī

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

Önge

Etymology

Cognate to Jarawa mi (“I; we”). Not related to English.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

I; me (singular first-person pronoun)

References

D. Dasgupta, S. R. Sharma (1982) A Handbook of Onge Language, Anthropological Survey of India

Palenquero

Etymology

From Spanish mi.

Adjective

Usage notes

Placed after the noun.

Panim

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

louse

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

ami (synonym)

Etymology

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

I, me, my.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

Pijin

Etymology

From English me

Pronoun

I/me (first-person singular pronoun)

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: mi

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

(stressed) mnie

Pronoun

dative singular mute of ja

Etymology 2

Noun

mi n (indeclinable)

Alternative form of my.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: mi
Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Latin mi(ra) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

mi (musical note)

Coordinate terms

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

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Obsolete form of mim.

Rapting

Noun

louse

Rempi

Noun

louse

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian mi or French mi.

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

(music) mi, the note 'E'.

Declension

Samosa

Noun

louse

Saruga

Noun

louse

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mé.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

Pronoun

I, me

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mîː/

Pronoun

mȋ (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

we (nominative plural of jȃ (“I”))
we (vocative plural of jȃ (“I”))

Declension

See jȃ.

Pronoun

mi (Cyrillic spelling ми)

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

Seta

Noun

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

Sihan

Noun

louse

Silopi

Noun

louse

Slovak

Alternative forms

Pronoun

dative of ja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /míː/

Pronoun

mȋ

we (masculine plural, more than two)

Inflection

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin meus, when it was eliding before a vowel-initial word in speech.

Determiner

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

(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.

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi f (plural míes)

mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
Synonym: mu

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

Sumerian

Romanization

Romanization of 𒈪 (mi)

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”). Cognate with Thai หมี (mǐi), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩦ, Lao ໝີ (mī), Lü ᦖᦲ (ṁii), Tai Dam ꪢꪲ, Shan မီ (mǐi), Ahom 𑜉𑜣 (mī), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue, Bouyei moil. Compare Old Chinese 羋 (OC *meʔ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi¹/

Noun

bear

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

Pronoun

what

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

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

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

Turkish

Particle

Used to form interrogatives.

Inflection

See more at mı.

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?

Utu

Noun

louse

Veps

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)

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

than (in comparisons)

Synonyms

References

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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 眉 (“eyebrows”). Doublet of mày. Probably unrelated to mí (“eyelid”).

Noun

mi • (眉)

eyelashes
Synonym: 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)

(archaic, literary) you (second person singular pronoun)
(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

(music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 4

Verb

(slang) to kiss

Synonyms

hôn; hun; thơm

Walloon

Pronoun

Wamas

Noun

louse

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miː/
Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

I, me

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.

Particle

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.

Yoidik

Noun

louse

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(high-tone): IPA^(key): /mĩ́/
(mid-tone): IPA^(key): /mĩ̄/
(low-tone): IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

Etymology 1

Noun

mí

The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

me (second-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a high-tone monosyllabic verb)

Pronoun

mí

me (second-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a low- or mid-tone monosyllabic verb)

Determiner

my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

Etymology 3

Verb

mí

(intransitive) to breathe

Derived terms

ìmí, mímí

Etymology 4

Verb

(transitive) to shake

Etymology 5

Verb

(transitive) to swallow

Derived terms

mímì

Etymology 6

Verb

mì

(intransitive) to move
(intransitive) to oscillate

Derived terms

ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

Etymology 7

Pronoun

Alternative form of mo (“I”)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwuːjᴬ (“pubic hair”). Cognate with Thai หมอย (mɔ̌ɔi), Lao ໝອຍ (mǭi), Shan မွႆ (mǒay), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜩 (moy).

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /mi˨˦/
Tone numbers: mi¹
Hyphenation: mi

Noun

mi (old orthography mi)

pubic hair
Synonym: (dialectal) moi

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-miy. Cognates include Khumi Chin khimi and Tibetan མི (mi).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi˧˩/

Noun

mì

person, human being

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 42

Zulu

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

-mi

Combining stem of mina.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

-mi^?

to be standing

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-mi”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-mi”

Source: wiktionary.org

the third note of the musical scale.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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mi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Etymology 2

Noun

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Ajië

Pronunciation

Verb

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Albanian

Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

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Ama

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Noun

Amele

Noun

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Ampari Dogon

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Arikapú

Noun

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Aromanian

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Bagupi

Noun

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Noun

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Noun

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Berti

Noun

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Bislama

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Bourguignon

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Buginese

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Declension

Etymology 2

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Etymology 3

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