-mi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"
BugineseEdit
SuffixEdit
-mi (Buginese form ᨆᨗ)
- only
- tellumi panésaï
- there are only three things that determine it
GreenlandicEdit
EncliticEdit
-mi
Usage notesEdit
Not to be confused with -mi, locative singluar inflection ending.
ItalianEdit
PronounEdit
-mi
- enclitic form of mi; appended to present active infinitive verb forms to derive reflexive, accusative or dative forms when the object is first singular person
Usage notesEdit
The final -e of the original infinitive is removed :
Where the verb ends in -rre, the final re is removed, leaving behind just an -r:
- introdurre (“to introduce”) → introdurmi (“to introduce myself; to introduce me; to insert in me”)
In any case, after the suffixation, there is only a single r and no vowels immediately before -mi.
AnagramsEdit
KamberaEdit
PronounEdit
-mi
See alsoEdit
Kambera pronominal clitics
LaboyaEdit
PronounEdit
-mi
See alsoEdit
Laboya pronominal clitics
MakasarEdit
EtymologyEdit
EncliticEdit
-mi (Lontara spelling ᨆᨗ)
- perfective aspect marker with third person absolutive pronoun
- Tinromi i Baso. ― Baso is already asleep.
QuechuaEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (after vowels) -m
SuffixEdit
-mi
- Evidential suffix, first-hand information. Indicates that the speaker has direct evidence/knowledge of some fact, having experienced it, seen it, heard it, etc.
- Used to mark an open-ended question; more informal than -taq
See alsoEdit
SassareseEdit
PronounEdit
-mi
- enclitic form of mi; appended to polysyllabic second-person singular imperative forms
UneapaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a shortening of Proto-Oceanic *-mami, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-mami, from Proto-Austronesian *-ami.
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-mi
- A first-person plural exclusive possessive suffix.
Further readingEdit
- Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 365
WarlpiriEdit
SuffixEdit
-mi
- non-past marker, applied to verbs of class 1 to indicate non-past tense
ReferencesEdit
- Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)