mie
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmie̯/, [ˈmie̞̯]
Declension
Declension of mie
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Synonyms
French
Etymology 1
From Old French mie, from Latin mīca, from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Doublet of miche, from a Vulgar Latin variant, and mica, a learned borrowing.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Shortened from amie.
Further reading
- “mie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Karelian
Mandarin
Romanization
mie
Usage notes
- 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.
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish maith, from Proto-Celtic *matis, from possible Proto-Indo-European *mē-. Cognate with Welsh mad, Breton mad, Cornish mas. Compare Irish maith, Scottish Gaelic math.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maɪ/
Adjective
mie (comparative and superlative forms share)
- good
- Cha dooar rieau drogh veaynee corran mie.
- A bad reaper never got a good sickle.
- Cha jeanym drogh-hurn y chooilleeney son turn mie.
- I won’t do a bad turn in exchange for a good turn.
- moral
- favourable
Mutation
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mie | vie | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Middle English
References
- “min, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.
Norman
Old French
Noun
mie f (oblique plural mies, nominative singular mie, nominative plural mies)
- crumb (of bread, etc.)
Descendants
- French: mie
Plautdietsch
Portuguese
Romanian
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Cardinal: mie Ordinal: miilea Multiplier: înmiit Fractional: miime |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmi.e]
Etymology 1
From Latin mīlia, plural of mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”). Doublet of milă.
Declension
Related terms
- îmi (unstressed form)
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