mi

• (roman numeral): MI

mi

1. A Roman numeral representing one thousand and one (1001).

• Previous: m (one thousand, 1000)
• Next: mii (one thousand and two, 1002)

• IPA^(key): /miː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: me

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 (uncountable)

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

mi

1. Alternative form of mi. .

• 'im, I'm, IM, Im, im-

• IPA^(key): [mi]

mi

1. to come

• 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 *múh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with Latin mūs and Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs).[1]

mi m (indefinite plural minj, definite singular 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)

mi

1. water

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

From Latin me, accusative singular of ego. Compare Romanian mă.

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

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

mi

1. water

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

From English me

mi

1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
2. my (first-person singular possessive)
   • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎, →ISBN, page 344:

     Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Mi is often placed before a noun to mean my in high-register speech, but in low-register speech, blong mi is placed after the noun to achieve the same meaning.

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.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi/

From Latin mihi, through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

mi

1. me; post preposition form of jo

mi m (plural mis)

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

mi f (plural mis)

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

mi

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

From Latin meus.

mi m (feminine maja)

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

• to
• nuester
• vestro

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mi f (plural mi's)

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.

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• IPA^(key): /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): /ˈmɪ/

mi

1. you (plural)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
• Hyphenation: mi

See mikä.

mi

1. (poetic) Synonym of mikä (“what”)

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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mi m (plural mi)

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

• “mi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin mē, accusative of ego. As an indirect objective, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin * mi.

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

1. (direct object) me
2. (indirect object) to me
3. (reflexive) 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 (second person singular subject pronoun; long form), hilan (variant used in the Pular dialect of Futa Jalon)
• min (emphatic form)

• 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)

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi m (plural mis)

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

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

mi

1. louse

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

From Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).

mī

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

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. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mi.

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): [ˈmi]

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From Proto-Uralic *me.

mi

1. (personal) we

Note: In all these forms, mi is optional and only serves for emphasis.

• mialattunk, miáltalunk, mielőttünk etc. (mi + a postposition with the first-person plural personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
• minekünk, mivelünk, mihozzánk etc. (mi + one of the declined forms listed in the chart above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

• mink (dialectal)

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

mi

1. (poetic) how ...!, what a ...!

   Mi gyönyörűség! ― What a beauty!

• mily (also poetic)
• milyen (normal use)
• micsoda (normal, somewhat colloquial)
• minő (poetic and archaic)

mi

1. (interrogative) what?

   Mi van a kezedben? ― What is in your hand?

2. (after van or nincs in any tense and mood, followed by an infinitive) something, anything, nothing

   Nincs mit hozzátennem. ― I have nothing to add.

   Még szerencse, hogy volt mit enni! ― It's lucky there was something to eat!

   Örülnék, ha lenne mit nézni a tévében. ― I would be glad if there were something to watch on TV.

   Van mire tenni a vázát? ― Is there anything to put the vase on?

solmisation

mi (plural mik)

1. mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)

• dó, ré, fá, szó, lá, ti

• solfège hand signs

mi (plural mi-mi, first-person possessive miku, second-person possessive mimu, third-person possessive minya)

1. noodle

mi

1. (possessive) my

mi

1. louse

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

From Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a form mi.

• -mi (enclitic)

mi (first person, objective case)

1. me
2. (dative) (to) me

   (Lui/Lei) non mi piace. / Non mi piace (lui/lei). ― (He/She/It) not likes to me. / I do not like (him/her/it). / To me not likes (he/she/it).

   (Lui/Lei) mi piace. / Mi piace (lui/lei). ― (He/She/It) likes to me. / I like (him/her/it). / To me likes (he/she/it).

   Synonym: a me

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

mi

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

mi m or f (invariable)

1. mu (Greek letter)

From English me.

mi

1. I/me
2. mine

mi

1. Rōmaji transcription of み
2. Rōmaji transcription of ミ

From Portuguese mim.

mi

1. I, me, my

mi

1. louse

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

mi

1. what

mi

1. second person plural independent pronoun

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /miː/

mī

1. vocative masculine singular of meus

mī

1. (poetic, syncopated) dative singular of egō

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

From Latin mē, accusative of egō (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō (accusative *mē), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂, (accusative *m̥(m)é ~ me).

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. I, me

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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

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

From Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

mi (Jawi spelling مي‎, informal first-person singular possessive miku, impolite second-person singular possessive mimu, third-person singular possessive minya)

1. noodle

mi

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate 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
  • Afrikaans: my
• Limburgish: mir

• my, mie, me

Apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

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

mi (nominative I)

1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my.

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/a.

• min

• English: my
• Scots: my, ma

• “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

• Low German: my, mie, mui
  • German Low German: mi

    Plautdietsch: mie

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 English me.

mi

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

mi

1. me

From Old Norse mín.

mi

1. feminine singular of min

• “mi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse mín.

• IPA^(key): /miː/ (example of pronunciation)

mi

1. feminine singular of min

• “mi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• mik (for the accusative)

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

mī

1. dative/accusative of ik

• Middle Low German: mi
  • Low German: my, mie, mui
    • German Low German: mi

      Plautdietsch: mie

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

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

mi

1. I, me, my.

From English me

mi

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

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

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• (stressed) mnie

• IPA^(key): /mʲi/

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mi

1. dative singular mute of ja

   Daj mi rękę.

   Give me your hand.

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

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. 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)

mi

1. louse

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

From Old Irish mé, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

• IPA^(key): [mi]

mi

1. I
2. me

• mise (emphatic)

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”))

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?

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

mi

1. dative of ja

From Proto-Slavic *my.

• IPA^(key): /míː/

mȋ

1. we (masculine plural, more than two)

• IPA^(key): /mi/
• Rhymes: -i

mi (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.

mi f (plural míes)

1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ

• mu

From English me.

• IPA^(key): /mi/

mi

1. I
2. me
3. my

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

mi

1. what

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, 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.

From English me.

mi

1. me

• ai

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)

• mi-se
• koje-mi
• nimi

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], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɪj˧˧]

Short for lông mi, from Proto-Vietic *k-piːl or *ɓiːlʔ (“eyelid”), a cognate with mí (“eyelid”); compare Chinese 眉 (“eyebrows”) with Sino-Vietnamese reading mi, from which mày (“eyebrows”) derives.

mi (眉)

1. eyelashes

• lông mi

• mày

From Proto-Vietic *miː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *miiʔ. See also mày.

mi (𠋥)

1. (archaic, literary) you (second person singular pronoun)
2. (chiefly Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) you (second person singular pronoun, referring to a person held in low esteem)

• mày

• 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

Probably from French bise

mi

1. (slang) to kiss

• hôn; hun; thơm

mi

1. louse

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

• IPA^(key): /miː/

mi

1. me

Mi is typically heard only after the preposition i.

mi

1. a particle used with verbs other than bod to mark affirmative statements.

Mi triggers the soft mutation on the following verb. It is more common in the north; in the south, fe is used instead.

mi

1. louse

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

-mi

1. Combining stem of mina.

-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”