mig

Clipping of English or Spanish Miguel.

mig

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for San Miguel el Grande Mixtec.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of San Miguel el Grande Mixtec terms

Probably from a pronunciation of mg.

• Audio (Southern England):

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mig (plural migs)

1. A milligram
   • 1997 August 29, Rob Boyd, “androstenedione”, in alt.baldspot‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I'm on 400 migs of T and 200 of trenbelone and in the middle of growing some hair I havent seen 10 years

• More often spoken than written.

• mitx

Inherited from Old Catalan mig, from Latin medius (compare Occitan mièg, French mi-).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmit͡ʃ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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mig (feminine mitja, masculine plural migs or mitjos, feminine plural mitges)

1. middle; mid-

   mitjanit ― midnight

2. half

   mitja hora ― half hour

• a mitges
• enmig
• mig mig
• mitger

• mitjà

• “mig”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mig”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mig” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

• IPA^(key): /mɑj/, [ˈmɑ̈(j)]
• Rhymes: -aj

mig (nominative jeg, possessive min)

1. (personal) first person singular accusative personal pronoun; me
2. (personal, nonstandard, when before other terms in a list) first person singular nominative personal pronoun; I

   Mig og min bror tog til stranden.

   Me and my brother went to the beach.

Also used as reflexive pronoun.

From Old Norse mik.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪːɣ/

  Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

mig

1. (personal) accusative of ég; me

   Þú drapst mig.

   You killed me.

2. myself

   Ég brenndi mig.

   I burnt myself.

mig

1. alternative form of mygge

mig n (definite singular miget, indefinite plural mig, definite plural miga)

1. piss

mig

1. inflection of miga:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• “mig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mig

1. alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: mig

Deverbal from migać.

mig m inan (related adjective migowy)

1. (colloquial) sign of communication made with gestures or facial expressions
3. (linguistics) sign (specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to a word in spoken languages)
4. flash, jiffy (very short, unspecified length of time)

Borrowed from Russian МиГ (MiG).

mig m animal (related adjective migowy)

2. (aviation) MiG (any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft)

• mig in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mig in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mig in PWN's encyclopedia

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ.

mȋg m inan (Cyrillic spelling ми̑г)

1. wink
2. hint
3. cue

• mej (colloquial)

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛj/

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /mɛ/ (unstressed, informal)
• (Scania) IPA^(key): /maj/
• Rhymes: -ɛj, -aj
• Homophone: maj (Scania)

mig

1. me (objective case)

   Såg du mig aldrig där?

   Did you never see me there?

   Kan du lära mig att jonglera?

   Can you teach me how to juggle?

   • 1974, Lasse Tennander, “Ska vi gå hem till dig [Shall We Go to Your Place ["home to you" – idiomatic]]”, in Allting som ni gör kan jag göra bättre [Anything You Do, I Can Do Better [a cover album]]‎^[2], performed by Magnus Uggla:

     Ska vi gå hem till dig eller hem till mig, eller var och en hem till sitt? Ska vi göra som dom andra och ägna oss åt varandra, eller ska var och en sköta sitt?

     Shall we go to your place ["home to you" – idiomatic] or to my place [home to me], or each one ["each and one" – idiomatic] home to theirs [nominalized – neuter gender is used when there is no concrete referent, like in impersonal constructions and here, as a rule of thumb]? Shall we do like the others and spend time on each other [engage in each other as an activity – doesn't have the connotations of "devote"], or shall each one mind [take care of] theirs [nominalized]?

   • 1981, X Models, “Två av oss [Two of us]”‎^[3]:

     Det finns bara en av mig och det är jag. Det finns bara en av dig och det är du. Det finns bara två av oss, och det är vi.

     There is only one of me and that is I. There is only one of you [object] and that is you [subject]. There are only two of us, and that is us [we – subject]. [Swedish has some of the same subject/object fuzziness as English, but a standalone "Det är <pronoun>" idiomatically (through intuition rather than being taught) uses the subject form]

2. reflexive of jag; compare myself

   Jag skar mig på kniven.

   I cut myself on the knife.

   (literally, “I cut me on the knife.”)

• Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse jag lär mig att... ("I learn to...") [reflexive] with du lär mig att... ("you teach me to...") and jag lär mig själv att... ("I teach myself to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "mig själv" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.
• Mej (along with dej) was popular as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s (as well as long before that, separately), and is therefore seen in many old song lyrics, for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to mig.

• mig själv
• själv

• jag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• jag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)