mi - synonyms, antonyms, definitions

mi

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

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

Translingual

Symbol

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

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miː/
Rhymes: -iː
Homophone: me

Etymology 1

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Noun

mi (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

do-re-mi

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, 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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mi m (plural minj, definite 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 pronoun) myself

Related terms

mini
io/iou

Bagupi

Noun

louse

Baimak

Noun

louse

Bau

Noun

louse

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

me (accusative)

Berti

Noun

water

References

Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎^[2], Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/ [mi]

Pronoun

mi (Basahan spelling ᜋᜒ)

by us, of us
Synonym: niyato
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

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.

References

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

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

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [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)

Etymology 4

Verb

(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^[4], 2020 August 28, 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, 2022 July 4 (last accessed)

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 and plural meng or ming)

(Ripuarian) my (first-person singular possessive)

Usage notes

The form meng/ming is used for the neuter when strongly stressed: Dat es ming Jlas! (“That's my glass!”) 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

(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/

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ]

Pronoun

clitic dative of já

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

mine; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
my

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

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/
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

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

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

you (plural)

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

Pronoun

First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

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
Hyphenation^(key): mi

Pronoun

mi (poetic)

Alternative form of mikä (“what”) (especially as a relative pronoun)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

(music) mi, the note 'E'

Descendants

→ Persian: می (mi)

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 pronoun) 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

Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mi]

Determiner

mi (first-person singular possessive singular)

(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)

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

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mi”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

Gun

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

mí

we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

mì

you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mĩ/

Pronoun

me (first-person singular personal object pronoun)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

mí

us (first-person plural personal object pronoun)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

mì

you (second-person plural personal object pronoun)

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Etymology 1

From French mûr.

Adjective

ripe, mature

Etymology 2

From French mur.

Noun

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

(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

(interrogative) what?
Mi van a kezedben? ― What is in your hand?
(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

Determiner

mi (interrogative)

(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

(poetic) how …!, what (a) …!
Synonyms: (poetic) mily, (normal) milyen, (normal, slightly colloquial) micsoda, (poetic and archaic) minő

Mi gyönyörűség! ― What beauty!

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

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mi (plural mi-mi)

(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 mi-mi)

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

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

(rare) Alternative form of mikä

Declension

References

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

Interlingua

Determiner

(possessive) my

Isebe

Noun

louse

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited 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)

clitic accusative of io. me
Synonym: me (non-clitic)

m'ha colpito ― he hit me
clitic dative of io. (to) me
Synonym: a me (non-clitic)

dammelo ― give it to me

dimmi tutto ― tell me anything

mi piace ― I like it (literally, “it's pleasing to me”)

non mi fai paura ― you don't scare me (literally, “you don't give fear to me”)
(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).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

mu (Greek letter)

References

Anagrams

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

The hiragana syllable み (mi) or the katakana syllable ミ (mi) in Hepburn romanization.

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^[10] (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. Cognates include Veps mi and Finnish mi-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

(interrogative) what?
(relative) whatever
(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)

root
offshoot
vein
nerve bundle
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

second person plural independent pronoun

Ladino

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish mi (“my”), from Latin meus, when it was eliding before a vowel-initial word in speech.

Determiner

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

(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 livros. ― They are my books.

Los livros 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).

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish mi (“me”), from Latin mihi, dative of ego.

Pronoun

mi (Hebrew spelling מי)

me (declined form of yo used as the object of a preposition)

Alternative forms

References

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː/, [ˈmiː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmiː]

Pronoun

mī

vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

mī

(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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[14], 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

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese mim with denasalization.

Pronoun

(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.

References

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

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]
Rhymes: -i

Noun

mi (Jawi spelling مي)

noodle

References

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

Mandarin

Romanization

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

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.

Matepi

Noun

louse

Mawan

Noun

louse

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

Dutch: mij, me (muted)
- 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)

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
Geordie English: my, maw
Scots: my, ma, me
Yola: mee

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: mir
- 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

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj.

Noun

fire

References

Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

North Frisian

Pronoun

mi (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

Object case of ik: me, myself

Alternative forms

me (Mooring)

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/

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

Declension

Descendants

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

Old High German

Pronoun

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

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: mir
  - German Low German: mi
    Plautdietsch: mie

Old Spanish

Determiner

Alternative forms

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): /ˈmi/
Rhymes: -i
Syllabification: mi

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

(stressed) mnie

Pronoun

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi n (indeclinable)

Alternative form of my

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)

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

(music) mi, the note 'E'.

Declension

Samosa

Noun

louse

Saruga

Noun

louse

Sassarese

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

(accusative) me
(dative) to me, me
Alternative form of me

Related terms

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mé.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/, (accented) /mĩː/

Pronoun

mi (emphatic mise)

first-person singular pronoun; I, me

References

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

dative of ja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /míː/

Pronoun

mȋ

we (masculine plural, more than two)

Declension

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)

(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)

mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
Synonym: mu

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

Sumerian

Romanization

Romanization of 𒈪

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 (*meʔ).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi (猸)

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

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

Pronunciation

Particle

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 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]‎^[22], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mi˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]
(Vinh) IPA^(key): [mi˧˥]

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. This is the native form in the Central dialects, Northern and Southern dialects borrowed this neutral pronoun with added hostile connotation, probably due to their native mày/mầy.

Alternative forms

(Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) mày
(originally Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, now chiefly Nẫu) mầy

Pronoun

mi • (眉)

(chiefly Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) you (second person singular pronoun, referring to a peer or person held in low esteem)
(literary) thou/thee (used against an adversary)

Related terms

ta
tau; tao

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi.

Noun

(music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)
đô, rê, mi ― do, re, mi

Etymology 4

Verb

(slang) to kiss

Synonyms

hôn; hun; thơm

Anagrams

Walloon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

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

mi (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)

(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)
y (literary)

Mutation

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/m.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

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

Pronoun

mí

me (first-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

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

Verb

(transitive) to swallow

Derived terms

mímì

Etymology 6

Verb

mì

(intransitive) to move
(intransitive) to oscillate

Derived terms

ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

Etymology 7

Pronoun

(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

mí

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

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)

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

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”

mi

mi

Translingual

Symbol

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

Anagrams

Ajië

Pronunciation

Verb

References

Albanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Pronoun

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

See also

Ama

Pronunciation

Noun

Amele

Noun

Further reading

Ampari Dogon

Noun

Further reading

Arikapú

Noun

Further reading

Aromanian

Etymology

Pronoun

Related terms

Bagupi

Noun

Further reading

Baimak

Noun

Further reading

Bau

Noun

Further reading

Bavarian

Etymology

Pronoun

See also

Berti

Noun

References

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Bislama

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Usage notes

See also

References

Bourguignon

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

References

Buginese

Particle

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Pronoun