mi

Abbreviation of English Maori or Māori Māori.

mi

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Māori terms

• IPA^(key): /miː/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: me

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.

mi (uncountable)

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

• do-re-mi

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

mi

2. Alternative form of mi. (“mile”).

   Coordinate term: nmi (“nautical mile”)

• 'im, I'm, I. M., I.M., IM, Im, im-

• (Myanmar) /mi˧/

mi

1. yam

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[3], Payap University, page 82

• IPA^(key): [mi]

mi

1. to come

• 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.

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

• IPA^(key): [mi]

mi

1. my

• im

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

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

1. mouse

• miu i gjirizeve
• micë

• IPA^(key): /mĩː/

mi

1. bone

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. water

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

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

• (Chungli) IPA^(key): /mi˩/, [mi˩]

mi

1. (Chungli, Mongsen) fire

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

mi

1. water

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

From Latin me.

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

1. me (accusative)
2. (reflexive pronoun) myself

   Mi-ashedz.

   I sit (seat myself).

• mini
• io/iou

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

Cognate with German mich.

mi

1. me (accusative)

mi

1. water

• 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
• Hyphenation: mi

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)

• 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.

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

From Latin medius.

mi m (mis)

1. noon, midday

   El ât mi, noutre ovreire é dressai lai sope.

   It's noon, our worker has prepared the soup.

• mairande
• meidi
• mijor
• pregneire

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

mi

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

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

From Latin mī.

mi

1. me; post preposition form of jo

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

mi m (plural mis)

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

mi f (plural mis)

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

mi

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

• 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

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

• “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)

• IPA^(key): /mi/ [mi]

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.

• mei, mein (Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German mīn.

• IPA^(key): /miː/, /mi/

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?

• 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).

mi

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

From Latin me.

mi

1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ]

• Audio:

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mi

1. clitic dative of já

From Latin meus.

mi m (feminine maja)

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

• to
• nuester
• vestro

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mi
• Rhymes: -i

mi f (plural mi's, no diminutive)

1. (music) mi

mi

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: mi

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.

• IPA^(key): /mì/

mì

1. you (plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

mi

1. First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

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

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

mi (poetic)

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

• “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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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mi m (invariable)

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

• → Persian: می (mi)

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

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

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

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

• jo

mi

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

• 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.

• 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)

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

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

mi

1. louse

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

From Latin meus.

• IPA^(key): [mi]

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.

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

• mi madriña

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi]

mi m (plural mis)

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

• 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

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

mi

1. (botany) rice plant
2. rice

mi

1. louse

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

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

mī

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

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

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. have

mi

1. cat

From Portuguese mim.

mi

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

mi

1. louse

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

• IPA^(key): /mĩ́/

mí

1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

mì

1. you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /mĩ/

mi

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

• IPA^(key): /mĩ́/

mí

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

• IPA^(key): /mĩ̀/

mì

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

From French mûr.

mi

1. ripe, mature

From French mur.

mi

1. wall

• miray

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[10], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -mi

From Proto-Uralic *me.

mi

2. (personal) we

• mink (dialectal)

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)

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

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?

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

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

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?”)

mi

1. (poetic) how …!, what (a) …!

   Synonyms: (poetic) mily, (normal) milyen, (normal, slightly colloquial) micsoda, (poetic and archaic) minő

   Mi gyönyörűség! ― What beauty!

See the table of Hungarian correlatives for more terms.

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

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

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

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)

• (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

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

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

mi (plural mi-mi)

1. (cooking) noodle

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.

mi (plural mi-mi)

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

• “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

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

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

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 of mi: see mikä

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

mi

1. (possessive) my

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. to take

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

• -mi (enclitic)

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

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?

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

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

mi

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

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

mi m or f (invariable)

1. mu (Greek letter)

• im-

• me

From English me.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ/
• Hyphenation: mi

mi

1. I

   Mi born a Westmoreland.

   I was born in Westmoreland.

   • 2020, Carolyn Cooper, “Junjo inna di judge wig”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎^[11] (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^[12] (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^[13] (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 […]

• 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

mi

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

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

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.

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)

• Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa^[14] (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 76—85.

From Portuguese mim.

mi

1. I, me, my

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]

mi

1. by us, of us

   Synonyms: ikami, kami, kekami, ke

2. Our—exclusive of person spoken to.

   Synonyms: kekami, keke

mi

1. louse

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

Regional variants of mi

North Karelian (Viena)	mi
South Karelian (Tver)	mi

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
• Hyphenation: mi

mi

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

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	—	—

• 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

From Proto-Cariban *mitɨ (“root”); compare Apalaí mity, Trió mitï, Trió mi, Wayana mit, Akawaio mi', Pemon mük, Ye'kwana michü.

• IPA^(key): [mi]

mi (possessed mity)

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

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[15], 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^[16], Paris, 1956, page 286

mi

1. second person plural independent pronoun

Inherited from Old Spanish mi (“my”), from Latin meus, when it was eliding before a vowel-initial word in speech.

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)‎^[17]:

     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.

• 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).

Inherited from Old Spanish mi (“me”), from Latin mihi, dative of egō̆.

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.

• mí

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

mī

1. vocative masculine singular of meus

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.

• 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^[18], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin mē.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. I, me

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

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/
• Hyphenation: mi

mi

1. what?
2. which?

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

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

• IPA^(key): [mi³³]

mi

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

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

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

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

mi

1. what

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)

• M. Pahomov (2022), Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[19], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN

From Portuguese mim with denasalization.

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.

• 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.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i

mi (Jawi spelling مي, uncountable)

1. noodle

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

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

mi

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

• 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.

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

• IPA^(key): /miː/, /mi/

mi

1. accusative/dative of ic

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

• me, mie, my

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

• IPA^(key): /miː/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /mi/

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.)‎^[20], 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!"

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.

• min

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /miː/

mî

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

See Template:gml-perpron for declension.

• Low German: mir
  • German Low German: mi

    Plautdietsch: mie

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mii. DeLancey (2023) derives the pronominal use meaning "me" from an impersonal construction involving the word for "person".^[1]

mi

1. person

mi

1. me (object clitic on verbs)

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

Related to Dâw miʔ (“in (liquid)”).

mi

1. water

• naʔɤy

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

mi

1. louse

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

From Proto-Naish *me, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj.

mi

1. fire

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

From English me.

mi

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

mi (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

1. Object case of ik: me, myself

• me (Mooring)

From Old Norse mín.

/mi:/

mi

1. feminine singular of min

• “mi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /miː/

From Old Norse mín f.

mi f

1. feminine singular of min

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.

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.

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

• “mi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• im

mǐ`

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

• mē

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

mī

1. accusative/dative of ik

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

mi

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

• mik (for the accusative)

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

mī

1. dative/accusative of ik

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

• Middle Low German: mi
  • Low German: mir
    • German Low German: mi

      Plautdietsch: mie

mi

1. my

• mio

From Proto-Ongan *mi. Cognate with Jarawa mi (“I; we”). Not related to English.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

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

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-

• D. Dasgupta, S. R. Sharma (1982), A Handbook of Onge Language, Anthropological Survey of India
• Blevins, Juliette. "A Long Lost Sister of Proto-Austronesian?: Proto-Ongan, Mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands." Oceanic Linguistics 46, no. 1 (2007): 154-198. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2007.0015.

From Spanish mi.

mi

1. my

Placed after the noun.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. louse

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

• ami (synonym)

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

mi

1. I, me, my.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. I

From English me.

mi

1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
   • 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu‎^[21], page 41:

     Mi wande stori lebebet abaot tupela man blong America hemi foldaon long Baolo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: mi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (stressed) mnie

mi

1. dative singular mute of ja

   Daj mi rękę. ― Give me your hand.

mi n (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of my

• mi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: mi

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

mi m (plural mis)

1. mi (musical note)

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

mi

1. obsolete form of mim

mi

1. abbreviation of milhão

mi m (plural mis)

1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ

   Synonym: mu

• “mi”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mi”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• mį

Cognate with Assiniboine wí, Omaha-Ponca miⁿ, Dakota wí, Lakota wí.

mi

1. sun

• Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma (2017–), English to Quapaw Dictionary‎^[22]

• Rankin, Robert L. (1982), “A Quapaw Vocabulary”, in Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics‎^[23], volume 7, The University of Kansas, page 133 of 125–152

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

From Italian mi or French mi.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi m (plural mi)

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

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. (accusative) me
   • 1866, chapter X, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎^[24] (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^[25], 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]‎^[26] (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^[27], 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

• eu

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

From Old Irish mé.

• IPA^(key): /mi/^[1], (accented) /mĩː/^[2][3][4][5]

mi (emphatic mise)

1. first-person singular pronoun; I, me

From Proto-Slavic *my.

• IPA^(key): /mîː/

mȋ ? (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

1. we (nominative plural of jȃ (“I”))
2. we (vocative plural of jȃ (“I”))
3. (regional, Montenegro) we (clitic dative plural of jȃ (“I”))

See jȃ.

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?

The clitic dative forms in the plural correspond to the Old Church Slavonic вꙑ (vy) and Old Church Slavonic нꙑ (ny). However, it has primarily been attested in rural areas, most notably across Montenegro, where it has been preserved and is still in use. Cognates include Bulgarian ви (vi) and Bulgarian ни (ni), where it has been preserved even in the accusative case.

mi

1. water

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

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. louse

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

• mne

• IPA^(key): /mi/, [mi]
• Rhymes: -i

mi

1. dative of ja

From Proto-Slavic *my.

• IPA^(key): /míː/

mȋ

1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

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

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

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

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of mío, my

• 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).

mi f (plural míes)

1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ

   Synonym: mu

mi m (plural mis)

1. (music) mi

• “mi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From English me.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. I
2. me
3. my

mi

1. romanization of 𒈪

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).

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

mi (Nôm form 猸)

1. bear

• 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

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

mi

1. what

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[28], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From English me.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

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

See Template:tpi-personal pronouns for more pronouns.

From English me.

mi

1. me

• ai

• Audio:

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mi

1. Used to form interrogatives.

   Bugün okula gittin mi?

   Did you go to school today?

   Evli misin?

   Are you married?

• 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?

.

mi

1. louse

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

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)

1. what (interrogative)

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	—

• mi-se
• koje-mi
• nimi

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

mi

1. than (in comparisons)

• ku

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “чем, что”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[29], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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

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

mi • (眉)

1. eyelashes

   Synonym: lông mi

• mày

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.

• (Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) mày
• (originally Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, now chiefly Nẫu) mầy

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)

• ta
• tau; tao

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi.

mi

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

   đô, rê, mi ― do, re, mi

mi

1. (slang) to kiss

• hôn; hun; thơm

• im

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. me
2. my

mi

1. louse

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

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

• IPA^(key): /miː/
• Rhymes: -iː

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.

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.

• fi (“I, me”)
• i (“I, me”)

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.

• 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.

• fe (South Wales)
• y (literary)

mi

1. louse

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

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

mí

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

• (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

mi

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

mí

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

mi

1. my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

mí

1. (intransitive) to breathe

• ìmí, mímí

mi

1. (transitive) to shake

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

mi

1. (transitive) to swallow

• mímì

mì

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

• ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

mi

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

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

• (abbreviated): M, m

mí

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

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

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

mi (1957–1982 spelling mi)

1. pubic hair

   Synonym: (dialectal) moi

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

• IPA^(key): /mî/
• Hyphenation: mi

mì

1. person, human being

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

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

-mi

1. Combining stem of mina.

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

-mi^?

1. to be standing

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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