mi

mi

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of mi in English

English Online Dictionary. What means mi‎? What does mi mean?

Translingual

Symbol

mi

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Maori.

English

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.
Derived terms
  • do-re-mi
Translations
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, Paris: 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).

Noun

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

  1. mouse
Declension

See also

  • miu i gjirizeve
  • micë

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.

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)

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (accusative)

See also

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.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/, [mi]

Pronoun

mi (Basahan spelling ᜋᜒ)

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

Bislama

Etymology

From English me. Cognate with Tok Pisin mi and Pijin mi.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my

Usage notes

  • In formal speech, mi is placed before a noun to denote a first-person possessor. In informal speech, the construction blong mi is used instead.

See also

References

  • Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 46

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

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmi]
  • Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Latin .

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 Greek alphabet letter Μ (lowercase μ)

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (colloquial) second-person singular imperative of mirar
Usage notes
  • This form is an optional reduced form of the imperative mira that can see use when combined with one or more clitic pronouns attached to the end of the verb - for example:
  • mi-te'l (look at it, look at him) for mira-te'l
Derived terms
  • (Algherese) mi-lo, mi-la, mi-los, mi-les (behold!, here it is!, here they are!)

References

  • “Imperatius amb forma molt reduïda: mi-te'l, mi-te-la, mi-te'ls, mi-te-les”, in Optimot[3], 28 August 2020, retrieved 4 July 2022
  • El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 57
  • “mi-lo, mi-la”, in Diccionari d'Alguerés[4], accessed 4 July 2022

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • mei, mein (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German mīn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/, /mi/

Determiner

mi (masculine menge or minge, feminine meng or ming)

  1. (Ripuarian) my (first-person singular possessive)

Usage notes

  • The form meng/ming is used for the neuter when strongly stressed: Dat es ming Booch! (That's my book!) Contrariwise, the form mi may be used for the masculine and feminine when unstressed, chiefly with words for relatives: mi Papp (“my father”, but less common than menge Papp).

Chuukese

Verb

mi

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

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

See also

References

  • https://infcor.adecec.net/

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪ]

Pronoun

mi

  1. clitic dative of

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]
  • Audio:
  • Hyphenation: 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.

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪ/

Pronoun

mi

  1. you (plural)

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

See also

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[5], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi (poetic)

  1. Alternative form of mikä (what) (especially as a relative pronoun)

Declension

Further reading

  • mi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[6] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

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

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 (first person singular subject pronoun; long form), hilan (variant used in the Pular dialect of Futa Jalon)
  • min (emphatic form)
  • mín (emphatic form (Adamawa))
  • mi- (first person singular subject dependant pronoun (Adamawa))
  • -yam (first person singular object dependant pronoun (Adamawa))
  • -am (first person singular possessive pronoun)

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

Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mi]

Determiner

mi (first-person singular possessive singular)

  1. (before the noun) unstressed form of meu and miña: my
Usage notes

The form mi is only used before padre (father), madre (mother), tío (uncle), señor (lord, sir), amo (master), as a form of respect.

Derived terms
  • mi madriña

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi]

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

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

See also

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

References

  • “mi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mi” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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.

Pronoun

  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.

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)

Gun

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

  1. you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ/

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (first-person singular personal object pronoun)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

  1. us (first-person plural personal object pronoun)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

  1. you (second-person plural personal object pronoun)

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Etymology 1

From French mûr.

Adjective

mi

  1. ripe, mature

Etymology 2

From French mur.

Noun

mi

  1. wall
Synonyms
  • miray

References

  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi]
  • Rhymes: -mi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (personal) we
Declension
Alternative forms
  • mink (dialectal)
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)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

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
See also

See the table of pronominal adverbs from case suffixes for more terms.

Determiner

mi (interrogative)

  1. (now only in certain set phrases) what?
    Synonyms: milyen, miféle
    mi okból?for what reason?
    mi célból?for what purpose/goal?
    mi végből/végre?to what end?
    mi módon?in what manner?
    mi fán terem?what kind of thing is it? (literally, “on what tree is it produced?”)
Derived terms

Interjection

mi

  1. (poetic) how …!, what (a) …!
    Synonyms: (poetic) mily, (normal) milyen, (normal, slightly colloquial) micsoda, (poetic and archaic) minő
    Mi gyönyörűség!What beauty!

See also

See the table of Hungarian correlatives for more terms.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

mi (plural mik)

  1. mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)
    Coordinate terms: , , , szó, , ti
Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

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

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
  • (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi]
  • Hyphenation: mi

Etymology 1

From Malay mi (noodle), from Hokkien (, 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, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. (rare) Alternative form of mikä

Declension

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 309

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 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)

  1. clitic accusative of io. me
    Synonym: me (non-clitic)
    m'ha colpitohe hit me
  2. clitic dative of io. (to) me
    Synonym: a me (non-clitic)
    dammelogive it to me
    dimmi tuttotell me anything
    mi piaceI like it (literally, “it's pleasing to me”)
    non mi fai paurayou don't scare me (literally, “you don't give fear to me”)
  3. (colloquial) Used as ethical dative.
    stammi bene!keep well!
    che mi combini?what are you doing?
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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

  1. mu (Greek letter)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • im-

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

  • me

Etymology

From English me.

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, editor (1996) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 377
  • mi – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Japanese

Romanization

mi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

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[10] (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 Veps mi and Finnish mi-.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. (interrogative) what?
  2. (relative) whatever
  3. (indefinitve) whatever

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994), “mi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “mi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mitɨ (root); compare Apalaí mity, Trió mitï, Trió mi, Wayana mit, Akawaio mi', Pemon mük, Ye'kwana michü.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mi]

Noun

mi (possessed mity)

  1. root
  2. offshoot
  3. vein
  4. nerve bundle
  5. tendon, sinew

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[11], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 317
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “mi”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 292; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, ; Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[12], Paris, 1956, page 286

Laboya

Pronoun

mi

  1. second person plural independent pronoun

See also

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/, [mi˧]

Numeral

mi

  1. four

Alternative forms

  • myit

References

  • Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language[13], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 36

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

  1. vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

  1. (poetic) Syncopated form of mihī̆, dative 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[14], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me

See also

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

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. what?
  2. 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

mi 

  1. (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 from Old Saxon , from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

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

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese mim with denasalization.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (archaic) prepositional form of iou: me

Usage notes

  • For the most part, Macanese does not have pronoun inflections (accusative, dative, etc.). The exception is mi, the prepositional form of iou, but even this is extremely rare in modern Macanese. pà mi in the above poem would be pa iou in modern Macanese.

See also

#: dated.
*: rare.

References

  • https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_ancusa
  • https://comotavai.com/2012/02/02/pronomes-pessoais/

Malay

Etymology

From Hokkien (, noodle, flour).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

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

  1. noodle

References

  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “mi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 139

Further reading

  • “mi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

mi

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish my.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi]
  • Syllabification: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. we; first person plural

Further reading

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021), “my”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 206

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
    • Jersey Dutch: māi
    • Negerhollands: mi, mie
  • Limburgish: mir

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • me, mie, my

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/
  • (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
  • Geordie English: my, maw
  • Scots: my, ma
  • Yola: mee

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 , from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/

Pronoun

  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)

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej.

Noun

mi

  1. fire

References

  • Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

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/

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)

  1. (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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

  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 High German

Pronoun

mi

  1. (northern) Alternative form of mir, dative singular of ih

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

  • mik (for the accusative)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

  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

Old Spanish

Determiner

mi

  1. my

Alternative forms

  • mio

Önge

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

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

See also

References

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • (stressed) mnie

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative singular mute of ja
    Daj mi rękę.Give me your hand.

Etymology 2

Noun

mi n (indeclinable)

  1. Alternative form of my

Further reading

  • mi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: mi

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; , , mi, , sol, , 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)

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian mi or French mi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

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

Declension

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)

Sassarese

Alternative forms

  • m' (apocopic)
  • -mi, -mmi (enclitic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. (accusative) me
  2. (dative) to me, me
  3. Alternative form of me

Related terms

See also

  • eu

References

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/

Pronoun

mi (emphatic mise)

  1. first-person singular pronoun; I, me

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mîː/

Pronoun

(Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

  1. we (nominative plural of (I))
  2. we (vocative plural of (I))

Declension

See .

Pronoun

mi (Cyrillic spelling ми)

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

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mi]

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative of ja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /míː/

Pronoun

  1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

Inflection

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

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)

  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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi f (plural míes)

  1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
    Synonym: mu

Further reading

  • “mi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my

Sumerian

Romanization

mi

  1. Romanization of 𒈪

Tày

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [mi˧˧]
  • (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [mi˦˥]

Noun

mi ()

  1. bear

References

  • Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. what

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[21], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

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.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me

See also

  • ai

Turkish

Pronunciation

Particle

mi

  1. Used to form interrogatives.

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?

Inflection

See more at .

Utu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Veps

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. (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 (eyebrows). Doublet of mày. Probably unrelated to (eyelid).

Noun

mi • ()

  1. 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)

  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, mido, re, mi

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (slang) to kiss
Synonyms
  • hôn; hun; thơm

Anagrams

  • im

Walloon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. me
  2. my

Wamas

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

mi

  1. 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.

See also

  • fi (I, me)
  • i (I, me)

Particle

mi (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)

  1. (North Wales) used with inflected verbs to mark affirmative statements.

Usage notes

  • This particle is optional and may only be used before inflected verbs in the preterite, future or conditional in affirmative statements, e.g. mi fydda i'n mynd (I will go).
  • Some speakers may drop the particle but keep the resulting soft mutation, e.g. fydda i'n mynd (I will go) instead of bydda i'n mynd.

Synonyms

  • fe (South Wales)

Mutation

Yoidik

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

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

Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, , ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mi

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

Pronoun

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

Determiner

mi

  1. my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

See also

Etymology 3

Verb

  1. (intransitive) to breathe
Derived terms
  • ìmí, mímí

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive) to shake

Etymology 5

From an old Niger-Congo root, see Proto-Niger-Congo *-mi

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive) to swallow
Derived terms
  • mímì

Etymology 6

Verb

  1. (intransitive) to move
  2. (intransitive) to oscillate
Derived terms
  • ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

Etymology 7

Pronoun

mi

  1. (Lagos) Alternative form of mo (I)

Etymology 8

From mi used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale.

Alternative forms

  • (abbreviated): M, m

Noun

  1. The syllable used to represent the high-tone and its diacritic (´)

See also

Zhuang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi (1957–1982 spelling mi)

  1. pubic hair
    Synonym: (dialectal) moi

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mii, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-miy.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

  1. 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

  1. 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?

  1. 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

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