मी

Ahirani

Alternative forms

मि (mi)

Pronoun

मी (mī)

I

Further reading

डॉ॰ रमेश सीताराम सूर्यवंशी [Dr Ramesh Sitaram Suryawanshi] (1997) “मि / मी”, in आहिराणी शब्दकोश (आहिराणी - मराठी) [Ahirani Dictionary (Ahirani - Marathi)]‎^[1] (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: अक्षय प्रकाशन [Akshaya Prakashan], →ISBN, page 255, column 1; republished कन्नड तालुका, औरंगाबाद जिल्हा [Kannad Taluka, Aurangabad District]: अभ्यासिका प्रकाशन [Abhyasika Prakashan], 2013.

Marathi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Marathi 𑘦𑘲 (mī).

Pronoun

मी • (mī)

I
मी तिथे जाणार नाही.
mī tithe jāṇār nāhī.
I won't go there.

See also

मला
माझे, माझा, माझी
आम्ही
आपण

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to lessen, small, little”). Cognate with Russian меньше (menʹše, “less”); Latin minuō whence English minute, diminish, etc.; Latin minus, minor, minimum.

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /miː/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /miː/

Root

मी • (mī)

to lessen, diminish
to destroy

Derived terms

Category Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मी not found

Category Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मी not found

Primary Verbal Forms

मिनाति (minā́ti) (Present)
मीनाति (mīnā́ti) (Present)
मिनोति (minóti) (Present)
मीयते (mī́yate) (Present)
मास्यति (māsyáti) (Future)
मेष्यते (meṣyáte) (Future)
माता (mātā́) (Periphrastic Future)
अमेष्ट (ámeṣṭa) (Aorist)
अमास्त (ámāsta) (Aorist)
अमासीत् (ámāsīt) (Aorist)
मीयात् (mīyā́t) (Benedictive)
मिमाय (mimā́ya) (Perfect)

Secondary Forms

मीयते (mīyáte) (Passive)
अमायि (ámāyi) (Passive Aorist)
मापयति (māpáyati) (Causative)
अमीमपत् (ámīmapat) (Causative Aorist)
मिमीषति (mimīṣati) (Desiderative)
मित्सति (mitsati) (Desiderative)
मेमयीति (memayīti) (Intensive)
मेमीयते (memīyate) (Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

मीत (mītá) (Past Participle)
मेतोस् (métos) (Infinitive)
मीत्वा (mītvā́) (Gerund)

Prefixed Root Forms

आमी (āmī)
प्रमी (pramī)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “मी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 818, column 2.
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मी”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 121

Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मी”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “MAY^I”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 316-7
Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “mayⁱ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 306
Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 319
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 427
Pokorny, Julius (1959) “711”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 711

Sherpa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

मी (mī) (Tibetan Spelling མི)

human