mi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

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Translingual

Symbol

mi

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/

• Audio (General American):

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• 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

• do-re-mi

Translations

See mi/translations § Noun.

See also

• see list of other syllables at solfège, sol-fa

Etymology 2

Symbol

mi

2. Alternative form of mi. (“mile”).

   Coordinate term: nmi (“nautical mile”)

Anagrams

• 'im, I'm, I. M., I.M., IM, Im, im-

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^[3], Payap University, page 82

Ajië

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Verb

mi

1. to come

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1935), Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

mi

1. my

See also

• im

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

• miu i gjirizeve
• micë

Ama

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩː/

Noun

mi

1. bone

Amele

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

Ampari Dogon

Noun

mi

1. water

Further reading

• Roger Blench, Ampari Pa, a Dogon language in Northern Mali and its affinities (2005)

Ao

Etymology

From Proto-Central Naga *mej(ʔ), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj (“fire”).

Noun

mi

1. (Chungli, Mongsen) fire

Further reading

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[4], Berkeley: University of California, pages 78, 192

Arikapú

Noun

mi

1. water

Further reading

• E R Ribeiro, Nimuendajú Was Right: The Inclusion of the Jabutí Language Family (IJAL)

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).

Related terms

• mini
• io/iou

Bagupi

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Baimak

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Bau

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

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		eß, 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)‎^[5], 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^[6], →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

• mairande
• meidi
• mijor
• pregneire

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Latin mī.

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

• (Algherese) mi-lo, mi-la, mi-los, mi-les (behold!, here it is!, here they are!)

References

• “Imperatius amb forma molt reduïda: mi-te'l, mi-te-la, mi-te'ls, mi-te-les”, in Optimot‎^[7], 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

• mei, mein (Moselle Franconian)

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		mè
	2nd person		tù	ti		tè
	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

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ]

• Audio:

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Pronoun

mi

1. clitic dative of já

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

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

See also

• to
• nuester
• vestro

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mi
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

mi f (plural mi's, no diminutive)

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:

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• 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		ili iŝi3	ilin iŝin3	ilia iŝia3
	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 rare.

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

mì

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		tú	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		sí

Dialects:  ^L Lagarteiru   ^M Mañegu   ^V Valverdeñu

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[8], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 200

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

Declension of mi noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative mi mit superessive – – genitive min min delative – – partitive mitä mitä sublative minne – accusative mi, min mitkä lative – – inessive missä missä temporal milloin – elative mistä mistä causative miten – illative mihin mihin multiplicative – – adessive millä millä distributive – – ablative miltä miltä temp. dist. – – allative mille mille prolative – – essive minä minä situative – – translative miksi miksi oppositive – – abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

Further reading

• “mi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[9] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

mi m (invariable)

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

Descendants

• → Persian: می (mi)

Further reading

• “mi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mē, 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

Related terms

• jo

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

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

Gal

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

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

• dó
• fa
• la
• mi
• re
• si
• sol

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mi”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

mi

1. (botany) rice plant
2. rice

Garus

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronoun

mī

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

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mī	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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Patricia Lillie, Girawa Dictionary

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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Gun

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩ́/

Pronoun

mí

1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

mì

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

mí

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

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

mì

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

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Etymology 1

From French mûr.

Adjective

mi

1. ripe, mature

Etymology 2

From French mur.

Noun

mi

1. wall

Synonyms

• miray

References

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -mi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronoun

mi

2. (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

• mink (dialectal)

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

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?

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 beginning

• mialatt
• miáltal
• micsoda
• midőn
• mielőtt
• miféle
• mihaszna
• miképpen
• miközben
• mióta
• miszerint

Compound words with this term at the end

• akármi
• ami
• bármi
• némi
• semmi
• valami

Expressions

• mi újság? (pronoun/determiner)

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

• mi járatban vagy?
• mi újság? (pronoun/determiner)

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

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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: mi

Etymology 1

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

• “mi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: mi

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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Isoko

Verb

mi

1. to take

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• -mi (enclitic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/^°
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

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 notes

• Becomes me when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Combined	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se2	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f	lei, Lei1		la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1	le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1		lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi4	vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4			ve	voi, Voi4
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, Li1, -li, -Li1	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	glie, se	loro, Loro1, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f			le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/^°, (traditional) /ˈmi/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: mì

Noun

mi

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

1. mu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• im-

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• me

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^[10] (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^[11] (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^[12] (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 […]

Related terms

• yuh
• im
• har
• shi
• wi
• unnu
• dem

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 377
• mi – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

Japanese

Romanization

mi

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

Jarawa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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^[13] (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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

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
prolative	—	—
instructive	—	—

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
prolative	mičči	mičči
instructive	—	—

Derived terms

• minih
• nimi

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

• IPA^(key): [mi]

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^[14], 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^[15], 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. (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)‎^[16]:

     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 egō̆.

Pronoun

mi (Hebrew spelling מי)

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

• mí

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː]

Determiner

mī

1. vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

mī

1. syncopic form of mihī̆ (dative singular of egō̆)
   • 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^[17], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me

See also

• ti
• lê
• noî, niâtri
• voî, viâtri
• lô, liâtri

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

• my (older orthography)
• mie
• mek, meck, mik, mick (Eastphalian)
• mui (Eastwestphalian)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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.

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. what

Declension

Declension of mi
	singular	plural
nominative	mi	—
genitive	min	—
partitive	mida	—
essive	min	—
instructive	—	—
inessive	miš	—
elative	mišpiä	—
illative	mihe	—
adessive	mil	—
ablative	milpiä	—
allative	mile	—
abessive	mita	—
prolative	miči	—
translative	mikš	—
additive	mihepiä	—
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

References

• M. Pahomov (2022), Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[18], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN

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

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_ancusa
• https://comotavai.com/2012/02/02/pronomes-pessoais/

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

mi (Jawi spelling مي, uncountable)

1. noodle

References

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

Further reading

• “mi”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Mandarin

Romanization

mi

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

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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Mawan

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• me, mie, my

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.)‎^[19], published c. 1410, Joon 2:16, folio 45, recto, 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.

Related terms

• min

Descendants

• English: my
• Geordie: my, maw
• Scots: my, ma, me
• Yola: mee

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

• “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Middle Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/

Pronoun

mî

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

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mii. DeLancey (2023) derives the pronominal use meaning "me" from an impersonal construction involving the word for "person".

Noun

mi

1. person

Pronoun

mi

1. me (object clitic on verbs)

Derived terms

• mipa
• mipui
• Mizo

Mosimo

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Munit

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Murupi

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Naish *me, 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

• me (Mooring)

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		dü	–	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. Dü 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 jü / 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		dü	–	di			din		dinen
	3rd	m	hi	'r	höm	'n		sin		sinen
		f	jü	'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		wü		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. Dü 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

• “mi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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)

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

Coordinate terms

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, so (or sol), la, ti (or si), do

References

• “mi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• im

Nzadi

Pronoun

mǐ`

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

See also

Nzadi personal pronouns

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

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• mē

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronoun

mī

1. accusative/dative of ik

Declension

Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		ik	mī	mī	mīn
	2nd person		thū	thī	thī	thīn
	3rd person	m	hī	hine	him	sīn
		f	hiū, hiō	hiā	hire, hiāre	hire, hiāre
		n	hit	hit	him	sīn
plural	1st person		wī	ūs	ūs	ūser
	2nd person		jī	jū, jō	jū, jō	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

mī

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

• mio

Önge

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Panim Talking Dictionary

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• ami (synonym)

Etymology

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

Pronoun

mi

1. I, me, my.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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^[20], 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 1:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: mi

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• (stressed) mnie

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• 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

• (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mi

1. obsolete form of mim

Rapting

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Rempi

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian mi or French mi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

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

Declension

	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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Saruga

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Sassarese

Alternative forms

• m' (apocopic)
• -mi, -mmi (enclitic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. (accusative) me
   • 1866, chapter X, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎^[21] (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. 19^th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎^[22], 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]‎^[23] (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. 19^th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎^[24], 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

Related terms

• me
• meggu
• méiu

See also

• eu

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/, (accented) /mĩː/

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.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîː/

Pronoun

mȋ ? (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

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

Declension

See jȃ.

Pronoun

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?

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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Silopi

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Slovak

Alternative forms

• mne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

mi

1. dative of ja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /míː/

Pronoun

mȋ

1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

Declension

Slovene personal pronouns

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 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).

Related terms

Spanish possessive determiners

possessor		preposed		postposed or standalone
		singular possessee	plural possessee	singular possessee		plural possessee
				masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
first person	singular	mi	mis	mío	mía	míos	mías
	plural	(same as postposed/standalone)		nuestro	nuestra	nuestros	nuestras
second person	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

• “mi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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 (mī), Lü ᦖᦲ (ṁii), Tai Dam ꪢꪲ, Shan မီ (mǐi), Ahom 𑜉𑜣 (mī), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue, Bouyei moil. Compare Old Chinese 羋 (*meʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [mi˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [mi˦˥]

Noun

mi (猸)

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^[25], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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

• ai

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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?, mü? and mı?

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

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Utu

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

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

• mi-se
• koje-mi
• nimi

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

• ku

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “чем, что”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[26], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]
• (Vinh) IPA^(key): [mi˧˥]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mi • (眉)

1. eyelashes

   Synonym: lông mi

Related terms

• mày

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 • (眉)

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)

Related terms

• ta
• tau; tao

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi.

Noun

mi

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

   đô, rê, mi ― do, re, mi

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

1. (slang) to kiss

Synonyms

• hôn; hun; thơm

Anagrams

• im

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

mi

1. me
2. my

Wamas

Noun

mi

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

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

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

Yoruba

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

mí

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mi

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

Pronoun

mí

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	n̄ / mi	mi	èmi
	2nd person	o		ọ / ẹ	ìwọ
	3rd person	ó	[pronoun dropped]	[preceding vowel repeated for mono­syllabic verbs] / ẹ̀	òun
plural	1st person	a		wa	àwa
	2nd person	ẹ		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

mí

1. (intransitive) to breathe

Derived terms

• ìmí, mímí

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

• mímì

Etymology 6

Verb

mì

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

Alternative forms

• (abbreviated): M, m

Noun

mí

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

See also

names for tones

• dò
• re

Zhuang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /mi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: mi¹
• Hyphenation: mi

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

mì

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

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-mi”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-mi”