mi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

Translingual

Symbol

mi

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

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • 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)

  1. (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
Derived terms
Translations
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mi

  1. Alternative form of mi. .

Anagrams

Achang

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) /mi˧/

Noun

mi

  1. yam

Further reading

  • Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon[2], Payap University, page 82

Ajië

Pronunciation

Verb

mi

  1. to come

References

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mi]

Pronoun

mi

  1. my

See also

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

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

See also

Ama

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩː/

Noun

mi

  1. bone

Amele

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Ampari Dogon

Noun

mi

  1. water

Further reading

Arikapú

Noun

mi

  1. water

Further reading

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

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

Bagupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Baimak

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Bau

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (accusative)

See also

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
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 , ihr enk, eich enk, eich
3rd person plural se 's eahna eahna

Berti

Noun

mi

  1. water

References

  • Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎[3], Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/ [mi]

Pronoun

mi (Basahan spelling ᜋᜒ)

  1. by us, of us
    Synonym: niyato
  2. Our—exclusive of person spoken to.
    Synonym: niyamo
    Yaon an harong mi sana sa may kanto.
    Our house is just around the corner.

Bislama

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my
    • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech[4], →ISBN, page 344:
      Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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.

See also

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
collective2 tugeta trigeta
1 Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb.
2 The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.
Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns.

References

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

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin medius.

Noun

mi m (mis)

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

Synonyms

References

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

Buginese

Particle

mi

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin .

Pronoun

mi

  1. me; post preposition form of jo
Declension

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

mi f (plural mis)

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

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (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

References

  • “Imperatius amb forma molt reduïda: mi-te'l, mi-te-la, mi-te'ls, mi-te-les”, in Optimot[5], 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 July 2022 (last accessed)

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German mīn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/, /mi/

Determiner

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

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

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

mi

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

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

See also

Corsican personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
singular 1st person eiu mi
2nd person ti
3rd person m ellu li u, l' ellu
f ella a, l' ella
plural 1st person noi ci noi
2nd person voi vi voi
3rd person m elli li i, l' elli
f elle e, l' elle

References

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪ]
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

mi

  1. clitic dative of

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

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

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

mi f (plural mi's)

  1. (music) mi

Egyptian

Romanization

mi

  1. 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/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

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.

See also

Esperanto personal pronouns
singular plural
nominative accusative possessive nominative accusative possessive
first person  mi  min  mia  ni  nin  nia
second
person
formal  vi  vin  via  vi  vin  via
familiar1  ci  cin  cia
third
person
masculine  li  lin  lia
feminine  ŝi  ŝin  ŝia
neuter  ĝi  ĝin  ĝia
gender-neutral2  ri
ŝli
 rin
ŝlin
 ria
ŝlia
reflexive  si  sin  sia  si  sin  sia
indefinite  oni  onin  onia  oni  onin  onia

1 The second person familiar pronouns are archaic.

2 The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used.

3 The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used.

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mì/

Pronoun

  1. you (plural)

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

See also

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

Dialects:  L Lagarteiru   M Mañegu   V Valverdeñu

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[6], 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)

  1. alternative form of mikä (what) (especially as a relative pronoun)

Declension

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

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

Descendants

  • Persian: می (mi)

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

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

Fula

Pronoun

mi

  1. 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.

See also

  • miɗo (first person singular subject pronoun; long form), hilan (variant used in the Pular dialect of Futa Jalon)
  • min (emphatic form)
  • mín (emphatic form (Adamawa))
  • mi- (first person singular subject dependant pronoun (Adamawa))
  • -yam (first person singular object dependant pronoun (Adamawa))
  • -am (first person singular possessive pronoun)

Ga

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

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

Gal

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

Determiner

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 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)

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

See also

musical solfège notes: notas musicaisedit

References

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

mi

  1. (botany) rice plant
  2. rice

Garus

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronoun

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

Inflection

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

Girawa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Guerrero Amuzgo

Verb

mi

  1. have

Noun

mi

  1. cat

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

mi

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

Gumalu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Gun

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

  1. you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ/

Pronoun

mi

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

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

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

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

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

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French mûr.

Adjective

mi

  1. ripe, mature

Etymology 2

From French mur.

Noun

mi

  1. wall
Synonyms

References

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -mi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (personal) we
Declension
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 forms
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

mi

  1. (interrogative) what?
    Mi van a kezedben?What is in your hand?
  2. (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
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 terms
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions
See also

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

Determiner

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 terms
Expressions

Interjection

mi

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

See also

See the table of Hungarian correlatives for more terms.

Etymology 3

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

Noun

mi (plural mik)

  1. mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)
    Coordinate terms: , , , szó, , ti
Declension

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 (or mi-im)
2nd person sing. mi-d mi-jeid (or mi-id)
3rd person sing. mi-je mi-jei (or mi-i)
1st person plural mi-nk mi-jeink (or mi-ink)
2nd person plural mi-tek mi-jeitek (or mi-itek)
3rd person plural mi-jük mi-jeik (or mi-ik)

Further reading

  • (we): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (what): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (mi [in music]): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Malay mi (noodle), from Hokkien  / (, noodle, flour).

Noun

mi (plural mi-mi)

  1. (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)

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

Further reading

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. (rare) alternative form of mikä
    • 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:
      „Katso, mi kumma seel ono?“
      Hää hiljaa karhulle saoi.
      „Look, what kind of wonder is there?“
      It quietly asked the bear.

Declension

Declension of mi: see mikä

References

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

Interlingua

Determiner

mi

  1. (possessive) my

Isebe

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Isoko

Verb

mi

  1. to take

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/°[1]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi (first person, objective case)

  1. clitic accusative of io. me
    Synonym: me (non-clitic)
    m'ha colpitohe hit me
  2. clitic dative of io. (to) me
    Synonym: a me (non-clitic)
    dammelogive it to me
    dimmi tuttotell me anything
    mi piaceI like it (literally, “it's pleasing to me”)
    non mi fai paurayou 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 notes
  • Becomes me when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/°[1], (traditional) /ˈmi/*[1]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation:

Noun

mi

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/*[1], */ˈmi/*[1]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation:

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

  1. mu (Greek letter)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 mi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. I
    Mi born a Westmoreland.
    I was born in Westmoreland.
    • 2020, Carolyn Cooper, “Junjo inna di judge wig”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[8] (in Jamaican Creole):
      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" []
  2. me
    Yuh can see mi?
    Can you see me?
    • 2019, “Hello Mi Neighbour - Reduce your speed on the roads”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[9] (in English):
      “Si dat now! If yuh did only listen to mi!” []
      Shucks! If only you had listened to me []
  3. my
    A mi suitcase dat.
    That's my suitcase.
    • 2020, Andre Williams, “PORK POT SAFE - Senior glad after receiving COVID compassionate grant”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[10] (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 []

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

mi

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

Jarawa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. 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.

See also

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)

References

  • Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa[11] (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 76—85.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]

Pronoun

mi

  1. by us, of us
    Synonyms: ikami, kami, kekami, ke
  2. Our—exclusive of person spoken to.
    Synonyms: kekami, keke
Kapampangan personal pronouns
absolute ergative oblique
disjunctive enclitic
first
person
singular aku/i aku/yaku ku kanaku
plural inclusive ikatamu katamu/tamu tamu/ta kekatamu
plural exclusive ikami, ike kami/ke mi kekami/keke
second
person
singular ika ka mu keka
plural ikayu/iko kayu/ko yu kekayu/keko
third
person
singular iya/ya ya na keya/kaya
plural ila la da/ra karela

Kare (New Guinea)

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Karelian

Regional variants of mi
North Karelian
(Viena)
mi
South Karelian
(Tver)
mi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi. Cognates include Veps mi and Finnish mi-.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. (interrogative) what?
  2. (relative) whatever
  3. (indefinitve) whatever

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of mi (irregular)
singular plural
nominative mi mit
genitive min min
partitive mitä mitä
illative mih mih
inessive missä missä
elative mistä mistä
adessive millä millä
ablative miltä miltä
translative miksi miksi
essive minä minä
comitative mineh
abessive mittä mittä
Tver Karelian declension of mi (irregular)
singular plural
nominative mi mit
genitive min min
partitive midä midä
illative mih mih
inessive missä missä
elative mistä mistä
adessive millä millä
ablative mildä mildä
translative miksi miksi
essive minä minä
comitative minke minke
abessive mittä mittä

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

Noun

mi (possessed mity)

  1. root
  2. offshoot
  3. vein
  4. nerve bundle
  5. tendon, sinew

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[12], 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[13], Paris, 1956, page 286

Laboya

Pronoun

mi

  1. second person plural independent pronoun

See also

Laboya independent pronouns (nauwa-set)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person nauwa yitta nami
2nd person yauwu mi
3rd person nyiyo yiɗɗa

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)[1]

  1. (before the noun) apocopic form of mío, my
    • (Can we date this quote?), Alicia Sisso Raz, “Unas membranzas de momentos pascuales”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[14]:
      En mi corassón están grabadas con muncho cariño unos recuerdos endiamantados de la pascua enca de mis padres, ya ḥasrá.
      Advantageous memories of my parents’ home Seder are kept so dearly in my heart; those were the days.
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)[1]

  1. me (declined form of yo used as the object of a preposition)
    Hanuka linda sta aki; ocho kandelas para mi.
    Beautiful Hanukkah is here, so eight candles for me.
Alternative forms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 mi”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Latin

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

  1. syncopic form of mihī̆, dative of egō
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5.7:
      Da mi basia mille, deinde centum.
      Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred.

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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[15], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin .

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me

See also

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. what?
  2. 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

mi 

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

Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

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

Usage notes

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

References

  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 [...])“

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. what

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese mim with denasalization.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (archaic) prepositional form of iou: me
    Desde idade de doze ano
    ganhá pà unsong vesti;
    lavá ropa de sua pai,
    judá cô ancusa pà mi.
    From the age of twelve
    earned money to dress herself;
    washed her father's clothes
    helped with something for 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.

See also

Macanese personal pronouns and possessives
person pronoun possessive
singular first iou, io, mi*, ieu* iou-sa, iou-sua#, minha, io-sa, io-sua#
second vôs vôs-sa, vôsso, su, vôs-sua#
third êle, êla* êle-sa, su, êle-sua#
plural first nôs, nosôtro* nôs-sa, nôsso, nôs-sua#
second vosôtro vosôtro-sa, su, vosôtro-sua#
third ilôtro, elôtro*, olôtro*, ulôtro* ilôtro-sa, su, ilôtro-sua#
reflexive
(all persons)
onçóm su, onçóm-sa*, onçóm-sua#

# Dated.   * Rare.

References

Malay

Etymology

From Hokkien  / (, noodle, flour).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi (Jawi spelling مي)

  1. noodle

References

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

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

mi

  1. nonstandard spelling of
  2. nonstandard spelling of
  3. nonstandard spelling of
  4. nonstandard spelling of

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

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Mawan

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

Middle English

Alternative forms

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)

  1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my.
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[16], 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 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.

Descendants

See also

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
1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual 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.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon , from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/

Pronoun

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

Declension

See Template:gml-perpron for declension.

Descendants

  • Low German: mir
    • German Low German: mi
      Plautdietsch: mie

Mosimo

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Munit

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Murupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Nadëb

Etymology

Related to Dâw miʔ (in (liquid)).

Noun

mi

  1. water

Synonyms

  • naʔɤy

References

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

Nake

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj.

Noun

mi

  1. fire

References

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

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

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

North Frisian

Pronoun

mi (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

  1. Object case of ik: me, myself

Alternative forms

See also

Personal and possessive pronouns (Föhr-Amrum dialect)
personal possessive
subject case object case masculine referent feminine / neuter referent plural referent
full reduced full reduced attributive independent
singular 1st ik 'k mi man min minen
2nd di dan din dinen
3rd m hi 'r ham 'n san sin sinen
f or n hat at, 't at, 't
plural 1st wi 'f üs üüs üüsen
üsens
2nd jam 'm jam jau jauen
jamens
3rd jo 's jo 's hör hören
hörens
  • The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. is deleted altogether in such contexts.
  • At is not enclitic; it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
  • Dual forms wat / onk and jat / jonk are obsolete, as is feminine  / hör.
  • Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
  • The forms üsens, jamens, hörens are used optionally (and decreasingly) when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation.
Personal and possessive pronouns (Sylt dialect)
personal possessive
subject case object case singular
referent
plural referent
full reduced full reduced attributive independent
singular 1st ik 'k mi min minen
2nd di din dinen
3rd m hi 'r höm 'n sin sinen
f 's höör 's höör höören
n hat et, 't höm et, 't sin sinen
dual 1st wat unk unk unken
2nd at junk junk junken
3rd jat jam 's jaar jaaren
plural 1st üüs üüs üüsen
2nd i juu juu juuen
3rd ja 's jam 's jaar jaaren
  • The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. is deleted altogether in such contexts.
  • Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
  • The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
  • Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mín.

Pronunciation

/mi:/

Determiner

mi

  1. feminine singular of min

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mín f.

Determiner

mi f

  1. 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)

  1. (music) mi, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
Coordinate terms

References

Anagrams

Nzadi

Pronoun

mǐ`

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

See also

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

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

  1. accusative/dative of ik

Declension

Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person ik mīn
2nd person thū thī thī thīn
3rd
person
m hine him sīn
f hiū, hiō hiā hire, hiāre hire, hiāre
n hit hit him sīn
plural 1st person ūs ūs ūser
2nd person , , jūwer
3rd person hiā hiā him, hirem, hiārem hira, hiāra

Descendants

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

Old High German

Pronoun

mi

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

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

  • mik (for the accusative)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

  1. 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

mi

  1. my

Alternative forms

Önge

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

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

See also

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-

References

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

Palenquero

Etymology

From Spanish mi.

Adjective

mi

  1. my

Usage notes

Placed after the noun.

Panim

Pronunciation

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. I

Pijin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
    • 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu[17], page 41:
      Mi wande stori lebebet abaot tupela man blong America hemi foldaon long Baolo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

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

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mi

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi n (indeclinable)

  1. alternative form of my

Further reading

  • mi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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)

  1. mi (musical note)
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mi

  1. obsolete form of mim

Rapting

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Rempi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian mi or French mi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

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

Declension

Declension of mi
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mi miul mi mii
genitive-dative mi miului mi milor
vocative miule milor

Samosa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Saruga

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Sassarese

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. (accusative) me
    • 1866, chapter X, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎[18] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 38, page 37:
      E ca no piglia la so’ crozi, e mi sighi, no è dignu di me.
      And whoever doesn't take his own cross, and follow me, is not worthy of me.
    • c. 19th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese[19], volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 4, page 69:
      Nisciunu mi cunsola
      Nisciunu vibendi n’ha di me firizza
      No one consoles me. No one alive is proud of me.
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Femmina [Woman]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], 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, me
    • 1866, chapter XVIII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎[20] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 28, page 72:
      Isciddu però lu silvidori incuntresi un altru silvidori cumpagnu soju, chi li dibia zentu dinà: e affarrenddilu l’affogaba, dizendi: Pagami lu chi mi debi.
      Having gone out, however, the servant met another fellow servant, who owed him a hundred denarii; and, grabbing him, he choked him, saying: "Pay what you owe me".
      (literally, “Gone out however the servant met another servant fellow of his, who to him owed a hundred denarii: and grabbing him he choked him, saying: Pay me that which to me you owe.”)
    • c. 19th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese[21], volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 15, page 89:
      Forsi mi dizarè
      Chi chiddu in lu so fà no ha uguali
      Nè forsi timarè
      Ch’ un altru possia fatti tantu mali
      Ma eju diggu cun dolu
      Chi tal’ omu in lu mondu no è solu.
      Maybe you'll tell me that he, in his actions, has no peers. And maybe you won't fear that someone else might hurt you so much. But I say, pained, that that man is not alone in the world.
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Bocca [Mouth]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), 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

See also

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish .

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi (emphatic mise)

  1. first-person singular pronoun; I, me

See also

Scottish Gaelic personal pronouns
simple emphatic
singular plural singular plural
first person mi sinn mise sinne
second person thu, tu1 sibh2 thusa, tusa1 sibhse2
third
person
m e iad esan iadsan
f i ise

1 Used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh.
2 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.

References

  1. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  4. ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
  5. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mîː/

Pronoun

(Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

  1. we (nominative plural of (I))
  2. we (vocative plural of (I))

Declension

See .

Pronoun

mi (Cyrillic spelling ми)

  1. to me (clitic dative singular of (I))
  2. (emphatic, possessive, dative) my, of mine (clitic dative singular of (I))
    Gdje mi je auto?
    Where is my car?

See also

Serbo-Croatian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person ja mi
2nd person familiar ti vi
polite vi
3rd person m on oni
f ona one
n ono ona

Seta

Noun

mi

  1. 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

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Silopi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Slovak

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative of ja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /míː/

Pronoun

  1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

Declension

Declension of mi (irregular, suppletive)
singular
1st person 2nd person reflexive
nominative jàz
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 m, f or n m, 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 also

Slovene personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person m jaz midva mi
f or n medve, midve me
2nd person
familiar (tikanje)
m ti vidva vi
f or n vedve, vidve ve
3rd person m on onadva oni
f ona onedve, onidve one
n ono onedve, onidve ona
Polite forms singular (not differentiated in dual and plural)
polite (vikanje) vi, Vi + 2nd person plural masculine
very polite (onikanje) oni + 3rd person plural masculine (archaic)
hyper polite (onokanje) ono + 3rd person singular neuter (obsolete)
patriarchal (onkanje) on + 3rd person singular masculine (obsolete)

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)

  1. (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).

Spanish possessive determiners
possessor preposed postposed or standalone
singular
possessee
plural
possessee
singular possessee plural possessee
masculine feminine masculine feminine
first person singular 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 2

Noun

mi f (plural míes)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

  1. (music) mi

Further reading

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my

Sumerian

Romanization

mi

  1. romanization of 𒈪

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (bear). Cognate with Thai หมี (mǐi), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩦ, Lao ໝີ (), ᦖᦲ (ṁii), Tai Dam ꪢꪲ, Shan မီ (mǐi), Ahom 𑜉𑜣 (), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue, Bouyei moil. Compare Old Chinese (*meʔ).

Pronunciation

Noun

mi ()

  1. 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

mi

  1. what

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[22], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

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

See also

See Template:tpi-personal pronouns for more pronouns.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me

See also

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Particle

mi

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

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?, ? and ?

Inflection

Conjugation of mi
singular plural
1st person (ben) 2nd person (sen) 3rd person (o) 1st person (biz) 2nd person (siz) 3rd person (onlar)
simple miyim misin mi miyiz misiniz mi
inferential miymişim miymişsin miymiş miymişiz miymişsiniz miymiş
past miydim miydin miydi miydik miydiniz miydi
conditional miysem miysen miyse miysek miyseniz miyse

.

Utu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Veps

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)

  1. what (interrogative)
Inflection
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 terms

Etymology 2

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

Conjunction

mi

  1. 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]‎[23], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mi • ()

  1. eyelashes
    Synonym: lông mi

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 • ()

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi.

Noun

mi

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

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (slang) to kiss
Synonyms

Anagrams

Walloon

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. me
  2. my

Wamas

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

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 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.

See also

  • fi (I, me)
  • i (I, me)

Particle

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 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

Mutated forms of mi
radical soft nasal aspirate
mi fi unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yoidik

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

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

See also

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mi

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

Pronoun

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

Determiner

mi

  1. my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

See also

Yoruba personal pronouns
subject object1 emphatic
affirmative negative
singular 1st person mo / mi mi èmi
2nd person o / ìwọ
3rd person ó [pronoun dropped] [preceding vowel repeated for mono­syllabic verbs] / ẹ̀ òun
plural 1st person a wa àwa
2nd person yín ẹ̀yin
3rd person wọ́n wọn wọn àwọn
1 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.

Etymology 3

Verb

  1. (intransitive) to breathe
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive) to shake

Etymology 5

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

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive) to swallow
Derived terms

Etymology 6

Verb

  1. (intransitive) to move
  2. (intransitive) to oscillate
Derived terms
  • ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

Etymology 7

Pronoun

mi

  1. (Lagos) alternative form of mo (I)

Etymology 8

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

Alternative forms

  • (abbreviated): M, m

Noun

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

See also

names for tones

Zhuang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

mi (1957–1982 spelling mi)

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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?

  1. to be standing
Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References