mid

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Translingual

Symbol

mid

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mandaic.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mandaic terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).

Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

Adjective

mid (not comparable)

1. Occupying a middle position; middle.
2. (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
3. (originally African-American Vernacular and Internet slang) Mediocre; of middling quality.
4. (Internet slang, by extension) Trashy; low-quality.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

mid (uncountable)

1. (location, online gaming, slang) The middle of the battlefield.

Adverb

mid (not comparable)

1. (location, online gaming, slang) To or into the middle of the battlefield.

Preposition

mid

1. (archaic) Amid.

Translations

Derived terms

See also those listed at Category:English terms prefixed with mid-.

Related terms

• midday
• midnight

Etymology 2

From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.

Noun

mid (plural mids)

1. (archaic) middle

Etymology 3

Clipping of mid-range.

Noun

mid (plural mids)

1. (disc golf) A mid-range.

Etymology 4

From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of use by the end of the 1300s and survived into the modern English period only in the compounds midwife and theremid.

Preposition

mid

1. (in representations of German-accented English) With.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.

References

• “mid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.

German Low German

Alternative forms

• met (in some dialects)
• mit (in some dialects)
• möt (Low Prussian)

Etymology

From Middle Low German mit, mid, from Old Saxon mid. Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), German mit (“with”). For more, see Middle English mid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪt/

Preposition

mid

1. (in some dialects) with

Hungarian

Etymology

mi (“what”) +‎ -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmid]
• Hyphenation: mid

Pronoun

mid

1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of mi

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English mid (“with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, into the presence of, through, by means of, by, among, in, at (time), in the sight of, opinion of”, preposition), from Proto-West Germanic *midi (“with”).

Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), Low German mit (“with”), German mit (“with”), Danish med (“with”), Icelandic með (“with”), Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “among, between, with”), Albanian me (“with, together”), Sanskrit स्मत् (smat, “together, at the same time”).

Alternative forms

• med, medde, midde, mide, mit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mid/

Preposition

mid

1. with
2. amid, amidst

References

• “mid (adj. & pref.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English midd.

Alternative forms

• med, medde, midde, mide, mit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mid/

Adjective

mid

1. mid-, middle, central, intermediate
2. that is or are in the middle or intermediate in time

Descendants

• English: mid

References

• “mid (adj. & pref.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse miðr, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“middle, mid”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪː/

Adjective

mid m or f (neuter midt, comparative midre, superlative midst)

1. middle

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “mid” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Old English

Alternative forms

• mit, miþ, mið
• mið — Mercian, Northumbrian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *midi. Compare Old Saxon mid, Old High German mit, Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mid/

Preposition

mid

1. with
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 29:19

2. by
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "THE ANNUNCIATION OF ST. MARY."

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Holy Day of Pentecost"

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

3. as
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"

4. on
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Prayer of Moses (Mid-Lent)"

Descendants

• Middle English: mid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish *ᚋᚓᚇᚒ (*medu), from Proto-Celtic *medu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲið/

Noun

mid n (genitive meda)

1. mead

Inflection

Derived terms

• mesc (“drunk”)
• Midgen (literally “mead-born”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: mid
  • Irish: meá
  • Scottish Gaelic: meadh

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• midi, mit, mith, met

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *midi.

Preposition

mid

1. with

Adverb

mid

1. with, together, along

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji micca and Hadiyya mato.

Numeral

mid

1. one

References

• Somali Wörterbuch by M. A. Farah - D. Heck (Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1993)