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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)

  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
  • see list of other syllables at solfège, sol-fa

Etymology 2

Noun

mi

  1. Alternative form of mi. .

Anagrams

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

Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mi]

Verb

mi

  1. 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

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.

Noun

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

  1. mouse

Declension

See also

  • miu i gjirizeve
  • micë

References

Ama

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩː/

Noun

mi

  1. bone

Amele

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)

Ampari Dogon

Noun

mi

  1. water

Further reading

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

Arikapú

Noun

mi

  1. water

Further reading

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

Aromanian

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

Related terms

  • mini
  • io/iou

Bagupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Baimak

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Bau

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Berti

Noun

mi

  1. 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

mi

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

Bislama

Etymology

From English me

Pronoun

mi

  1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
  2. 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)

  1. 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

mi

  1. 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 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).

Chuukese

Verb

mi

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

Corsican

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/

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

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

See also

  • to
  • nuester
  • vestro

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

mi f (plural mi's)

  1. (music) mi

Egyptian

Romanization

mi

  1. 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)

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

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪ/

Pronoun

mi

  1. you (plural)

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

See mikä.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (poetic) Synonym of mikä (“what”)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

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).

Friulian

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

Fula

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)

Ga

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

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

Gal

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Galician

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)

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

mi

  1. (botany) rice plant
  2. rice

Garus

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Gaulish

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

Girawa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Guerrero Amuzgo

Verb

mi

  1. have

Noun

mi

  1. cat

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mim. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

mi

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

Gumalu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi]
  • 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) …!
Synonyms
  • mily (also poetic)
  • milyen (normal use)
  • micsoda (normal, somewhat colloquial)
  • minő (poetic and archaic)

Pronoun

mi

  2. (interrogative) what?
  3. (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)

  2. 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)

Further reading

  • solfège hand signs

Further reading

  • (we): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (what): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (mi [in music]): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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)

  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 (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.

Interlingua

Determiner

mi

  1. (possessive) my

Isebe

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Italian

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
    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

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)

Anagrams

  • im-

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

  • me

Etymology

From English me. Compare Sranan Tongo mi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪ/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my

Related terms

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

Further reading

  • 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

Japanese

Romanization

mi

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

Jarawa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. 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.

See also

References

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

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my

Kare (New Guinea)

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi. Cognates include Estonian mis and Veps mi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. what?
  2. 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

mi

  1. second person plural independent pronoun

See also

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj. Cognates include Jingpho mali and Burmese လေး (le:).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/, [mi˧]

Numeral

mi

  1. 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

  1. vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

mī

  1. (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, 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

Lolopo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mi³³]

Noun

mi 

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

Low German

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.

References

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. what

Malay

Etymology

From Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

Noun

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

  1. noodle

Mandarin

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.

Matepi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Mawan

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

  • Dutch: mij, me
    • Afrikaans: my
  • 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.) (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 vs a.

Related terms

  • min

Descendants

  • English: my
  • Scots: my, ma

See also

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

  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

Mosimo

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Munit

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Murupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Nadëb

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)

Nake

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

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

North Frisian

Pronoun

mi

  1. me

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mín.

Pronunciation

Determiner

mi

  1. 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

  1. 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)

  2. (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

  • im

Nzadi

Pronoun

mǐ`

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

See also

Old Frisian

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

Old Saxon

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

Palenquero

Etymology

From Spanish mi.

Adjective

mi

  1. my

Usage notes

Placed after the noun.

Panim

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

  • ami (synonym)

Etymology

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I

Pijin

Etymology

From English me

Pronoun

mi

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

See also

Polish

Alternative forms

  • (stressed) mnie

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʲi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative singular mute of ja

Portuguese

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.

Rapting

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Rempi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Samosa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Saruga

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mé. Cognates include Irish mé and Manx mee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me

See also

Serbo-Croatian

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”))

Declension

Seta

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

Sihan

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Silopi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Slovak

Alternative forms

  • mne

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative of ja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /míː/

Pronoun

mȋ

  1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

Inflection

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Determiner

  1. , my
Usage notes

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

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

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

  1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From . Compare .

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my

Ter Sami

Etymology

From .

Pronoun

  1. what

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) ‎[10], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From .

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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

See also

See Template:tpi-personal pronouns for more pronouns.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From .

Pronoun

  1. me

See also

Turkish

Particle

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

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Veps

Etymology 1

From .

Pronoun

  1. what
Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Conjunction

  1. than
Synonyms

References

  • , ; , (2007) , ”, in [], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from . . Probably unrelated to .

Noun

  1. eyelashes
Related terms

Etymology 2

From , from . See also .

Alternative forms

Pronoun

  1. you
  2. you
Related terms
  • ;

Etymology 3

Borrowed from or .

Noun

  1. mi

Etymology 4

Verb

  1. to kiss
Synonyms
  • ; ;

Walloon

Pronoun

  1. me
  2. my

Wamas

Noun

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology

From , from , from . Cognate to , , , and .

Pronoun

  1. I, me

Usage notes

Mi is typically heard only after the preposition in formal language and in northern colloquial language. In southern colloquial language the form is used after the preposition .

See also

Particle

  1. a particle used with verbs other than 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, is used instead.

Yoidik

Noun

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Yoruba

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter [[M#|M]].

See also

Etymology 2

Pronoun

  1. me

Pronoun

  1. me

Adjective

  1. my

See also

Etymology 3

Verb

  1. to breathe

Derived terms

  • ,

Etymology 4

Verb

  1. to shake

Etymology 5

Verb

  1. to swallow

Derived terms

Etymology 6

Verb

  1. to move
  2. to oscillate

Derived terms

  • ,

Etymology 7

Pronoun

Zhuang

Etymology

From . Cognate with , , , .

Pronunciation

Noun

  1. pubic hair

Zou

Etymology

From , from . Cognates include and .

Pronunciation

Noun

  1. person, human being

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) , Canchipur: Manipur University, page 42

Zulu

Etymology 1

Pronoun

  1. Combining stem of .

Etymology 2

Verb

  1. to be standing
Inflection

This verb needs an [[:Category: verb inflection-table templates|inflection-table template]].

References

  • C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , ”, in , →ISBN

Önge

Etymology

Cognate to . Not related to English.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. I; me

See also

References

  • D. Dasgupta, S. R. Sharma (1982) , Anthropological Survey of India

Source: wiktionary.org
  • the third note of the musical scale.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)