mi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

Languages (134)

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Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Maori or Maori Māori.

Symbol

mi

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maori terms

English

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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, 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, 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)‎, 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, →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, 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)‎, 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]‎ (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; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎, Dunwoody Press, →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

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