Wiktionary

mi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

mi

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

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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.

NounEdit

mi (uncountable)

  1. (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
TranslationsEdit
See mi/translations § Noun.
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

mi

  1. Alternative form of mi. .

AnagramsEdit

AjiëEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mi

  1. to come

ReferencesEdit

AlbanianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Indo-European

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. my

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Albanian *mūh-, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s (“mouse”).

NounEdit

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

  1. mouse
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mi
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mi minj miu minjtë
accusative mi minj miun minjtë
dative miu minjve miut minjvet
ablative minjsh

See alsoEdit

AmaEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. bone

AmeleEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

Ampari DogonEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. water

Further readingEdit

ArikapúEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. water

Further readingEdit

AromanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin me.

PronounEdit

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

  1. me (accusative)
  2. (reflexive) myself
    Mi-ashedz.
    I sit (seat myself).

Related termsEdit

BagupiEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

BaimakEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

BauEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

BavarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Cognate with German mich.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me (accusative)

See alsoEdit

Bavarian personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
1st person singular i — mi — mia (mir) ma
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du — di — dia (dir) da
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Sie — Eahna — Eahna —
3rd person singular m er a eahm 'n eahm 'n
n es, des 's des 's
f se, de 's se 's ihr —
1st person plural mia (mir) ma uns — uns —
2nd person plural eß, ihr — enk, eich — enk, eich —
3rd person plural se 's eahna — eahna —

BertiEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • 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 CentralEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

BislamaEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I, me, my
    • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎[2], →ISBN, page 344:
      Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Usage notesEdit

  • 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 alsoEdit

Bislama personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person exclusive mi mitufala mitrifala mifala
inclusive — yumitu, yumitufala yumitrifala yumi
2nd person yu yutufala yutrifala yufala
3rd person neutral hem, em tufala trifala ol1), olgeta
collective — tugeta trigeta —
1) Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb.
*) Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns.
**) The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.

ReferencesEdit

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

BourguignonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin medius.

NounEdit

mi m (mis)

  1. noon, midday
    El ât mi, noutre ovreire é dressai lai sope
    It's noon, our worker has prepared the soup

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Thomas Mignard (1870). Vocabulaire raisonné et comparé du dialecte et du patois de la province de Bourgogne.

BugineseEdit

ParticleEdit

mi

  1. ᨆᨗ: which means only, e.g. ᨉᨘᨕᨆᨗ /duaːmi/ means only two.

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin mī.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me; post preposition form of jo
DeclensionEdit

See Template:ca-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

mi m (plural mis)

  1. (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

mi f (plural mis)

  1. mu; the Greek alphabet letter Μ (lowercase μ).

Etymology 4Edit

VerbEdit

mi

  1. (colloquial) second-person singular imperative form of mirar
Usage notesEdit

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 termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “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 FranconianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German mīn.

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

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

  1. (Ripuarian) my (first-person singular possessive)
    Wo hann ich dann mi Jlas henjestallt?
    Where did I put my glass?

Usage notesEdit

  • 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).

ChuukeseEdit

VerbEdit

mi

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

CorsicanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin me.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

See alsoEdit

Corsican personal pronouns
Nominative Dative Accusative Disjunctive
Singular 1st person eiu mi mè
2nd person tù ti tè
3rd person m ellu li u, l' ellu
3rd person f ella a, l' ella
Plural 1st person noi ci noi
2nd person voi vi voi
3rd person m elli li i, l' elli
3rd person f elle e, l' elle

ReferencesEdit

DalmatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin meus.

PronounEdit

mi m (feminine maja)

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

See alsoEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi f (plural mi's)

  1. (music) mi

EgyptianEdit

RomanizationEdit

mi

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian mi, French moi, English me, etc., plus the i of personal pronouns.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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.

EweEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. you (plural)

FalaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

See alsoEdit

Fala personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
first person singular ei me, -mi mi
plural common nos musL
nusLV
nos, -nusM		 nos
masculine noshotrusM noshotrusM
feminine noshotrasM noshotrasM
second person singular tú te, -ti ti
plural common vos vusLV
vos, -vusM		 vos
masculine voshotrusM voshotrusM
feminine voshotrasM voshotrasM
third person singular masculine el le, -li uLV, oM el
feminine ela a ela
plural masculine elis usLV, osM elis
feminine elas as elas
reflexive — se, -si sí

ReferencesEdit

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎[5], CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 200

FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

mi

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mi
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative mi mitsuperessive – –
genitive min mindelative – –
partitive mitä mitäsublative minne –
accusative mi, min mitkälative – –
inessive missä missätemporal milloin –
elative mistä mistäcausative miten –
illative mihin mihinmultiplicative – –
adessive millä millädistributive – –
ablative miltä miltätemp. dist. – –
allative mille milleprolative – –
essive minä minäsituative – –
translative miksi miksioppositive – –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi m (plural mi)

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

Further readingEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronounEdit

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

  1. (direct object) me
  2. (indirect object) to me
  3. (reflexive) myself

Related termsEdit

FulaEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I (first person singular subject pronoun; short form)

Usage notesEdit

  • 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 alsoEdit

  • miɗo (second person singular subject pronoun; long form), hilan (variant used in the Pular dialect of Futa Jalon)
  • min (emphatic form)

GaEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

GalEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

GalicianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin meus.

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

mi (first-person singular possessive singular)

  1. (before the noun) unstressed form of meu and miña: my
    • 1880, Rosalía de Castro, Follas novas, page 83:
      —Non mo preguntés, mi madre,
      Vale mais que nunca o sepás.
      Secretos d'esta feitura
      Deben dormir antr'as pedras.
      Don't ask me, my mother,
      better if thou never know.
      Secrets of this making
      should sleep among the stones.
Usage notesEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi m (plural mis)

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

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

GaroEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

mi

  1. (botany) rice plant
  2. rice

GarusEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

GaulishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

PronounEdit

mī

  1. I; first-person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

InflectionEdit

Number Singular Plural
Nominative mī snīs
Accusative me snīs
Genitive mon ansron
Dative moi amē
Ablative me ame
Instrumental moi ?
Locative moi amē

GirawaEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

Guerrero AmuzgoEdit

VerbEdit

mi

  1. have

NounEdit

mi

  1. cat

Guinea-Bissau CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese mim.

PronounEdit

mi

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

GumaluEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

GunEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mí

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mì

  1. you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

Etymology 4Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mí

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

Etymology 5Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mì

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

Haitian CreoleEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From French mûr.

AdjectiveEdit

mi

  1. ripe, mature

Etymology 2Edit

From French mur.

NounEdit

mi

  1. wall
SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Uralic *me.

PronounEdit

mi

  2. (personal) we
DeclensionEdit
declension of mi
nominative mi
accusative minket
dative nekünk
instrumental velünk
causal-final értünk
inessive bennünk
superessive rajtunk
adessive nálunk
illative belénk
sublative ránk
allative hozzánk
elative belőlünk
delative rólunk
ablative tőlünk
Alternative formsEdit
Derived termsEdit

Note: In all these forms, mi is optional and only serves for emphasis.

Etymology 2Edit

ed  Table of Correlatives (cf. H. demonstrative adverbs)
question this that same every-/all no- relative some any else
e/i- a/o- ugyan mind(en)- se(m/n)- a- + qu. vala  akár
bár		 más
who ki ő u mindenki senki aki v a b m
what mi ez az u u minden semmi ami /
amely		 v a b m
which melyik mindegyik
mind		 semelyik
egyik sem		 amelyik v a b m
how hogy(an)
miként		 így úgy u u mindenhogy
mindenhogyan		 sehogy(an)
semmiképpen		 (a)mint
ahogy(an)		 v
v		 a b
a b		 m/m
m/m
what…like
what kind		 milyen
miféle		 ilyen
efféle		 olyan
afféle		 u u mindenféle semmilyen
semmiféle		 amilyen v
v		 a b
a b		 m
m/m
where hol itt ott u u mindenhol
mindenütt		 sehol ahol v a b m
m
from wh. honnan innen onnan u u mindenhonnan sehonnan ahonnan v a b m
to where hova
hová		 ide oda u u mindenhova
mindenhová		 sehova
sehová		 ahova
ahová		 v
v		 a b
a b		 m
m
from
which way		 merről erről arról u u mindenfelől semerről amerről v a b m
which way merre erre arra u u mindenfelé semerre amerre v a b m
why miért ezért azért u u mindenért semmiért amiért v a b m
how many hány ennyi annyi u u mind
az összes		 sehány ahány v a b –
how much mennyi semennyi amennyi v a b
wh. extent mennyire ennyire annyira u u (teljesen) semennyire amennyire v a b –
what size mekkora ekkora akkora u u (az egész) semekkora amekkora v a b –
what time mikor ekkor akkor u u mindig soha/sose(m)
sohase(m)		 amikor v a b m
how long
how far		 meddig eddig addig u u (végig)* semeddig ameddig v a b –
*: Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig).
Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”);
is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”).
né- (“some”) forms compounds with few words.

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

PronounEdit

mi

  2. (interrogative) what?
    Mi van a kezedben? ― What is in your hand?
  3. (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?
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mi mik
accusative mit miket
dative minek miknek
instrumental mivel mikkel
causal-final miért mikért
translative mivé mikké
terminative miig mikig
essive-formal miként mikként
essive-modal — —
inessive miben mikben
superessive min miken
adessive minél miknél
illative mibe mikbe
sublative mire mikre
allative mihez mikhez
elative miből mikből
delative miről mikről
ablative mitől miktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		mié miké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		miéi mikéi
Possessive forms of mi
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mim mijeim
2nd person sing. mid mijeid
3rd person sing. mije mijei
1st person plural mink mijeink
2nd person plural mitek mijeitek
3rd person plural mijük mijeik
Derived termsEdit
Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions
See alsoEdit

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

DeterminerEdit

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 termsEdit
Expressions

InterjectionEdit

mi

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

See alsoEdit

See the table of Hungarian correlatives for more terms.

Etymology 3Edit

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

NounEdit

 
solmisation

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
DeclensionEdit

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mi mik
accusative mit miket
dative minek miknek
instrumental mivel mikkel
causal-final miért mikért
translative mivé mikké
terminative miig mikig
essive-formal miként mikként
essive-modal miül —
inessive miben mikben
superessive min miken
adessive minél miknél
illative mibe mikbe
sublative mire mikre
allative mihez mikhez
elative miből mikből
delative miről mikről
ablative mitől miktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		mié miké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		miéi mikéi
Possessive forms of mi
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mim mijeim
2nd person sing. mid mijeid
3rd person sing. mije mijei
1st person plural mink mijeink
2nd person plural mitek mijeitek
3rd person plural mijük mijeik

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

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mi mi-k
accusative mi-t mi-ket
dative mi-nek mi-knek
instrumental mi-vel mi-kkel
causal-final mi-ért mi-kért
translative mi-vé mi-kké
terminative mi-ig mi-kig
essive-formal mi-ként mi-kként
essive-modal mi-ül —
inessive mi-ben mi-kben
superessive mi-n mi-ken
adessive mi-nél mi-knél
illative mi-be mi-kbe
sublative mi-re mi-kre
allative mi-hez mi-khez
elative mi-ből mi-kből
delative mi-ről mi-kről
ablative mi-től mi-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		mi-é mi-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		mi-éi mi-kéi
Possessive forms of mi
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mi-m mi-jeim
2nd person sing. mi-d mi-jeid
3rd person sing. mi-je mi-jei
1st person plural mi-nk mi-jeink
2nd person plural mi-tek mi-jeitek
3rd person plural mi-jük mi-jeik

Further readingEdit

IndonesianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

mi (first-person possessive miku, second-person possessive mimu, third-person possessive minya)

  1. (food) noodle

Etymology 2Edit

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.

NounEdit

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 readingEdit

InterlinguaEdit

DeterminerEdit

mi

  1. (possessive) my

IsebeEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

mi (first person, objective case)

  1. clitic accusative of io. me
    Synonym: me (non-clitic)
    m'ha colpito ― he hit me
  2. 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”)
  3. (colloquial) Used as ethical dative.
    stammi bene! ― keep well!
    che mi combini? ― what are you doing?
Usage notesEdit
  • Becomes me when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
See alsoEdit

See Template:Italian personal pronouns for more pronouns.

Etymology 2Edit

 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mi

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

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/*
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: mì

NounEdit

mi m or f (invariable)

  1. mu (Greek letter)

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

Jamaican CreoleEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English me.

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I
    • 2020, Carolyn Cooper, “Junjo inna di judge wig”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎[6]:
      “Mi nearly dead wid laugh wen mi read wa Fieldgar post pon Gleaner website bout mi column, "Hair Policy Infested With Racism". […] ”
      I nearly died of laughter when I read what Fieldgar posted about my column on Gleaner's website, "Hair Policy Infested with Racism" […]
    Mi born a Westmoreland.
    I was born in Westmoreland.
  2. me
    • 2019, “Hello Mi Neighbour - Reduce your speed on the roads”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎[7] (in English):
      “Si dat now! If yuh did only listen to mi!” […] ”
      Shucks! If only you had listened to me […]
    Yuh can see mi?
    Can you see me?
  3. my
    • 2020, Andre Williams, “PORK POT SAFE - Senior glad after receiving COVID compassionate grant”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎[8] (in English):
      “Mi just done cook mi pork and mi rice and peas 'cause I didn't get to cook yesterday […] ”
      I've just finished cooking my pork and my Jamaican rice and peas because […]
    A mi suitcase dat.
    That's my suitcase.

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

mi

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

JarawaEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I; we (both singular and plural first-person pronoun, usually not as the object of the verb)

Usage notesEdit

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 alsoEdit

Jarawa pronouns
Person Default form Accusative form Prefixed form
1st mi ma m-
2nd ŋi ŋa ŋ-
ni na n-
ən ən-
3rd hi, əhi hiwa h-, hi-, ih-, he-, əh-
ən (for generic third-person)

ReferencesEdit

KabuverdianuEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese mim.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I, me, my

Kare (New Guinea)Edit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

KarelianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. what?
  2. which, that

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mi
singular plural
nominative mi mit
genitive min min
partitive mitä mitä
inessive missä missä
elative mistä mistä
illative mih mih
adessive millä millä
ablative miltä miltä
essive minä minä
translative miksi miksi
abessive mittä mittä

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 60

LaboyaEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. second person plural independent pronoun

See alsoEdit

Laboya independent pronouns (nauwa-set)
Person Number
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1 nauwa yitta nami
2 yauwu mi
3 nyiyo yiɗɗa

LashiEdit

Lashi cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : mi

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mi

  1. four

Alternative formsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎[9], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 36

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mī

  1. vocative masculine singular of meus

PronounEdit

mī

  1. (poetic) Syncopated form of mihī̆, dative of egō
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5.7:
      Dā mī basia mille, deinde centum.
      Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred.

ReferencesEdit

  • 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[10], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

LigurianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mē.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I, me

See alsoEdit

LivviEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

mi

  1. what?
  2. which?

ReferencesEdit

  • Tatjana Boiko (2019), “mi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

LolopoEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi 

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

Low GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German mî from Old Saxon mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me (dative of ik)
  2. me (accusative of ik)

Usage notesEdit

  • Some Low German dialects in southern Westphalia differentiate between dative mi and accusative mik.[1][2]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Charles V. J. Russ (editor): The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic survey. First published in 1990, reprinted 2000, page 61, note (e): „[...] southern Westphalian dialects, alone of the Low German dialects, do distinguish acc. mik and dik from dat. mi and di.“
  2. ^ Ein Sohn der rothen Erde (a son of the red earth): Niu lustert mol! Plattdeutsche Erzählungen und Anekdoten im Paderborner Dialekt. Celle, 1870, page 7: „Fürwörter. Die persönlichen lauten: ik, meyner, mey, mik; diu oder du, deyner, dey, dik [...]“. Translation: „Pronouns. The personal pronouns are: ik, (genitive) meyner, (dative) mey, (accusative) mik; diu or du, deyner, dey, dik [...])“

LudianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. what

MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: -i

NounEdit

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

  1. noodle

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

mi

  1. Nonstandard spelling of mī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of mí.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of mǐ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of mì.

Usage notesEdit

  • 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.

MatepiEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

MawanEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

Middle DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. accusative/dative of ic

DescendantsEdit

  • Dutch: mij, me
    • Afrikaans: my
    • Jersey Dutch: māi
    • Negerhollands: mi, mie
  • Limburgish: mir

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

mi (nominative I)

  1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my.
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[11], published c. 1410, Joon 2:16, page 45r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      And he ſeide to hem þat ſelden culueris / take ȝe awei from hennes þeſe þingis .· ⁊ nyle ȝe make þe hous of my fadir an hows of marchaundiſe
      And he said to those who sold doves: "Take those things out of here; you won't make my father's house a place of business!"

Usage notesEdit

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 termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

See alsoEdit

Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st-person I, ich, ik me min
mi1		 min
2nd-person þou þe þin
þi1		 þin
3rd-person m he him
hine2		 him his his
hisen
f sche, heo hire
heo 		hire hire
hires, hiren
n hit hit
him2		 his, hit —
dual3 1st-person wit unk unker
2nd-person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st-person we us, ous oure oure
oures, ouren
2nd-person4 ye yow your your
youres, youren
3rd-person inh. he hem
he2		 hem here here
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren

1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

ReferencesEdit

Middle Low GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Saxon mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mî

  1. (first person singular dative) me
  2. (first person singular accusative) me

DeclensionEdit

See Template:gml-perpron for declension.

DescendantsEdit

MosimoEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

MunitEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

MurupiEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

NadëbEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Dâw miʔ (“in (liquid)”).

NounEdit

mi

  1. water

SynonymsEdit

  • naʔɤy

ReferencesEdit

  • Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics (Aikhenvald, Dixon), citing Martins (1994)

NakeEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

NaxiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej.

NounEdit

mi

  1. fire

ReferencesEdit

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

Nigerian PidginEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English me.

PronounEdit

mi

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

North FrisianEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse mín.

PronunciationEdit

  This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

DeterminerEdit

mi

  1. feminine singular of min

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse mín f.

DeterminerEdit

mi f

  1. feminine singular of min

Etymology 2Edit

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.

NounEdit

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 termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

AnagramsEdit

NzadiEdit

PronounEdit

mǐ`

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

See alsoEdit

Nzadi personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person mǐ` bǐ
2nd person yǎ` byɛ̌n
3rd person human ndé bɔ̌
3rd person nonhuman nɔ̌ mɔ̌

Old FrisianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

PronounEdit

mī

  1. accusative/dative of ik

InflectionEdit

See Template:ofs-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

DescendantsEdit

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

Old High GermanEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

Old SaxonEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • mik (for the accusative)

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

PronounEdit

mī

  1. dative/accusative of ik

DeclensionEdit

See Template:osx-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle Low German: mi

Old SpanishEdit

DeterminerEdit

mi

  1. my

Alternative formsEdit

ÖngeEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

See alsoEdit

Önge pronouns
Person Independent singular Independent plural Prefixed singular Prefixed plural
1st mi eti m- et-, ot-
2nd ṅi ni ṅ- n-
3rd gi ekwi g- ek-, ok-, ekw-
ëni (for generic third-person) on-, ën-

ReferencesEdit

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

PalenqueroEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish mi.

AdjectiveEdit

mi

  1. my

Usage notesEdit

Placed after the noun.

PanimEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

PapiamentuEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I, me, my.

PiedmonteseEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I

PijinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English me.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
    • 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu‎[12], page 41:
      Mi wande stori lebebet abaot tupela man blong America hemi foldaon long Baolo.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

See alsoEdit

Pijin personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person mi mitufala (exclusive)
iumitufala (inclusive) 		mitrifala (exclusive)
iumitrifala (inclusive) 		mifala (exclusive)
iumifala, iumi (inclusive)
2nd person iu iutufala iutrifala iufala
3rd person hem tufala trifala ol/olketa

PolishEdit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative formsEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

mi n (indeclinable)

  1. Alternative form of my

Further readingEdit

  • mi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: mi

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin mi(ra) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

NounEdit

mi m (plural mis)

  1. mi (musical note)
Coordinate termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. Obsolete form of mim.

RaptingEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

RempiEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian mi or French mi.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi m (plural mi)

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mi
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mi miul (niște) mi mii
genitive/dative (unui) mi miului (unor) mi milor
vocative miule milor

SamosaEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

SarugaEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

SassareseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. (accusative) me
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Femmina [Woman]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 21:
      Cand’eri
      giobanedda mi pugnì
      cument’e mura mura.
      When you were young, you used to prickle me like a blackberry
  2. (dative) to me
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Bocca [Mouth]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 25:
      O bocca di pizzinna, bocca bedda,
      chi mi dizì paràuri pruibiddi
      e chi basgèndimi eri cussì dozzi!
      Oh, young woman's lips, beautiful lips, that spoke forbidden words to me, and was so sweet in kissing me!
      (literally, “Oh, mouth of girl, beautiful mouth, who to me spoke forbidden words, and that kissing me was so sweet!”)
  3. Alternative form of me

Related termsEdit

Related terms

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish mé.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I, me

See alsoEdit

Scottish Gaelic personal pronouns
simple emphatic
singular plural singular plural
First person mi sinn mise sinne
Second person thu, tu1) sibh thusa, tusa1) sibhse
Third person m e iad esan iadsan
Third person f i ise
*) sibh and sibhse also act as the polite singular pronouns.
**) To mark a direct object of a verbal noun, the derivatives of gam are used.
1) used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh.

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mȋ (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

  1. we (nominative plural of jȃ (“I”))
  2. we (vocative plural of jȃ (“I”))

DeclensionEdit

See jȃ.

PronounEdit

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”))
    Gdje mi je auto?
    Where is my car?

SetaEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

SihanEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

SilopiEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

SlovakEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. dative of ja

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mȋ

  1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

InflectionEdit

Declension of mi (irregular, suppletive)
singular
1st person 2nd person reflexive
nominative jàz tí —
accusative méne, me tébe, te sébe, se
genitive méne, me tébe, te sébe, se
dative méni, mi tébi, ti sébi, si
locative méni tébi sébi
instrumental menój, máno tebój, tábo sebój, sábo
possessive mój tvój svój
dual
1st person 2nd person reflexive
nominative mídva m, médve/mídve f or n vídva m, védve/vídve f or n —
accusative náju váju sébe, se
genitive náju váju sébe, se
dative náma váma sébi, si
locative náju váju sébi
instrumental náma váma sebój, sábo
possessive nájin vájin svój
plural
1st person 2nd person reflexive
nominative mí m, mé f or n ví m, vé f or n —
accusative nàs vàs sébe, se
genitive nàs vàs sébe, se
dative nàm vàm sébi, si
locative nàs vàs sébi
instrumental nàmi vàmi sebój, sábo
possessive nàš vàš svój

See alsoEdit

Slovene personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person m jaz midva mi
f medve, midve me
2nd person familiar m ti vidva vi
f vedve, vidve ve
polite m vi vidva vi
f vi vedve, vidve ve
3rd person m on onadva oni
f ona onedve, onidve one
n ono onedve, onidve ona

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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

DeterminerEdit

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

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of mío, my
Usage notesEdit

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 termsEdit
    Spanish possessive determiners
possessor preposed postposed or standalone
possessee possessee
singular plural singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
First person: singular: mi mis mío mía míos mías
plural: (same as postposed/standalone) nuestro nuestra nuestros nuestras
Second person
(informal): 		singular: tu tus tuyo tuya tuyos tuyas
plural: (same as postposed/standalone) vuestro vuestra vuestros vuestras
Third person: su sus suyo suya suyos suyas

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

mi f (plural míes)

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

Further readingEdit

Sranan TongoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English me.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

mi

  1. Romanization of 𒈪 (mi)

TàyEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”). Cognate with Thai หมี, 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 (OC *meʔ).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi (猸)

  1. bear

ReferencesEdit

  • 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 SamiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. what

Further readingEdit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[13], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English me.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

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

See alsoEdit

See Template:tpi-personal pronouns for more pronouns.

Torres Strait CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English me.

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me

See alsoEdit

TurkishEdit

ParticleEdit

mi

  1. Used to form interrogatives.
    Bugün okula gittin mi?
    Did you go to school today?
    Evli misin?
    Are you married?

Usage notesEdit

  • 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?

InflectionEdit

See more at mı.

UtuEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

VepsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

PronounEdit

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)

  1. what (interrogative)
InflectionEdit
Inflection of mi
nominative sing. mi
genitive sing. min
partitive sing. midä
partitive plur. —
singular plural
nominative mi —
accusative min —
genitive min —
partitive midä —
essive-instructive min —
translative mikš —
inessive miš —
elative mišpäi —
illative mihe —
adessive mil —
ablative milpäi —
allative mille —
abessive mita —
comitative minke —
prolative midäme —
approximative I minno —
approximative II minnoks —
egressive minnopäi —
terminative I mihesai —
terminative II millesai —
terminative III — —
additive I mihepäi —
additive II millepäi —
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

ConjunctionEdit

mi

  1. than (in comparisons)
SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “чем, что”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 眉 (“eyebrows”). Doublet of mày. Probably unrelated to mí (“eyelid”).

NounEdit

mi • (眉)

  1. eyelashes
    Synonym: lông mi
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Vietic *miː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *miiʔ. See also mày.

Alternative formsEdit

PronounEdit

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 termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi.

NounEdit

mi

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

Etymology 4Edit

VerbEdit

mi

  1. (slang) to kiss
SynonymsEdit

AnagramsEdit

WalloonEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. me
  2. my

WamasEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

mi

  1. I, me
    Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi.
    The old land of my fathers is dear to me.
    Rhaid i mi fynd i weld Taid.
    I have to go and see Granddad.

Usage notesEdit

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 alsoEdit

  • fi (“I, me”)
  • i (“I, me”)

ParticleEdit

mi (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)

  1. (North Wales) used with inflected verbs to mark affirmative statements.
    Mi werthes i hanner dwsin.
    I sold half a dozen.

Usage notesEdit

  • 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.

SynonymsEdit

  • fe (South Wales)

YoidikEdit

NounEdit

mi

  1. louse

Further readingEdit

YorubaEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

mí

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

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronounEdit

mi

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

PronounEdit

mí

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

DeterminerEdit

mi

  1. my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

See alsoEdit

Affirmative subject pronouns
singular plural or honorific
1st person mo a
2nd person o ẹ
3rd person ó wọ́n
Negative subject pronouns
singular plural or honorific
1st person mi / n a
2nd person o ẹ
3rd person [pronoun dropped] wọn
Object pronouns
singular plural or honorific
1st person mi wa
2nd person ọ / ẹ yín
3rd person [preceding vowel repeated for monosyllabic verbs] / ẹ̀ wọn
Note: except for yín, object pronouns have a high tone following a low or mid tone monosyllabic verb, and a mid tone following a high tone. For complex verbs, the tone does not change.
Emphatic pronouns
singular plural or honorific
1st person èmi àwa
2nd person ìwọ ẹ̀yin
3rd person òun àwọn

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

mí

  1. (intransitive) to breathe
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

VerbEdit

mi

  1. (transitive) to shake

Etymology 5Edit

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

VerbEdit

mi

  1. (transitive) to swallow
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 6Edit

VerbEdit

mì

  1. (intransitive) to move
  2. (intransitive) to oscillate
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 7Edit

PronounEdit

mi

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

Etymology 8Edit

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

Alternative formsEdit

  • (abbreviated): M, m

NounEdit

mí

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

See alsoEdit

names for tones

ZhuangEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mi (1957–1982 spelling mi)

  1. pubic hair
    Synonym: (dialectal) moi

ZouEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mì

  1. person, human being

ReferencesEdit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 42

ZuluEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronounEdit

-mi

  1. Combining stem of mina.

Etymology 2Edit

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

VerbEdit

-mi?

  1. to be standing
InflectionEdit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ReferencesEdit

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