mig

See also: MIG, MiG, Mig, and míg

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English or Spanish Miguel.

Symbol

mig

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for San Miguel el Grande Mixtec.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of San Miguel el Grande Mixtec terms

English

Etymology

Probably from a pronunciation of mg.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

mig (plural migs)

1. A milligram
   • 1997 August 29, Rob Boyd, “androstenedione”, in alt.baldspot‎ (Usenet):

     I'm on 400 migs of T and 200 of trenbelone and in the middle of growing some hair I havent seen 10 years

Usage notes

• More often spoken than written.

Catalan

Alternative forms

• mitx

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mig, from Latin medius (compare Occitan mièg, French mi-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmit͡ʃ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

mig (feminine mitja, masculine plural migs or mitjos, feminine plural mitges)

1. middle; mid-

   mitjanit ― midnight

2. half

   mitja hora ― half hour

Derived terms

• a mitges
• enmig
• mig mig
• mitger

Related terms

• mitjà

Further reading

• “mig”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mig”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mig” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek (see there for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑj/, [ˈmɑ̈(j)]
• Rhymes: -aj

Pronoun

mig (nominative jeg, possessive min)

1. (personal) first person singular accusative personal pronoun; me
2. (personal, nonstandard, when before other terms in a list) first person singular nominative personal pronoun; I

   Mig og min bror tog til stranden.

   Me and my brother went to the beach.

Usage notes

Also used as reflexive pronoun.

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal (uncommon)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common (noun)	den		dens
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		indefinite	man	en	ens
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪːɣ/

  Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

Pronoun

mig

1. (personal) accusative of ég; me

   Þú drapst mig.

   You killed me.

2. myself

   Ég brenndi mig.

   I burnt myself.

Middle English

Noun

mig

1. alternative form of mygge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mig n (definite singular miget, indefinite plural mig, definite plural miga)

1. piss

Verb

mig

1. inflection of miga:
   1. present
   2. imperative

References

• “mig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Pronoun

mig

1. alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

MiG

Wikipedia ^pl

mig sense 2

mig sense 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: mig

Etymology 1

Deverbal from migać.

Noun

mig m inan (related adjective migowy)

1. (colloquial) sign of communication made with gestures or facial expressions
3. (linguistics) sign (specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to a word in spoken languages)
4. flash, jiffy (very short, unspecified length of time)

Declension

Declension of mig

	singular	plural
nominative	mig	migi
genitive	migu	migów
dative	migowi	migom
accusative	mig	migi
instrumental	migiem	migami
locative	migu	migach
vocative	migu	migi

Derived terms

adverbs

• migiem
• na migi
• w mig

Related terms

adverbs

• w try miga

verbs

• migać impf
• mignąć pf

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian МиГ (MiG).

Noun

mig m animal (related adjective migowy)

2. (aviation) MiG (any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft)

Declension

Declension of mig

	singular	plural
nominative	mig	migi
genitive	miga	migów
dative	migowi	migom
accusative	miga	migi
instrumental	migiem	migami
locative	migu	migach
vocative	migu	migi

Further reading

• mig in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mig in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mig in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ.

Noun

mȋg m inan (Cyrillic spelling ми̑г)

1. wink
2. hint
3. cue

Declension

Declension of mig

	singular	plural
nominative	mȋg	mȉgovi
genitive	miga	migova
dative	migu	migovima
accusative	mig	migove
vocative	migu	migove
locative	migu	migovima
instrumental	migom	migovima

Swedish

Alternative forms

• mej (colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛj/

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /mɛ/ (unstressed, informal)
• (Scania) IPA^(key): /maj/
• Rhymes: -ɛj, -aj
• Homophone: maj (Scania)

Pronoun

mig

1. me (objective case)

   Såg du mig aldrig där?

   Did you never see me there?

   Kan du lära mig att jonglera?

   Can you teach me how to juggle?

   • 1974, Lasse Tennander, “Ska vi gå hem till dig [Shall We Go to Your Place ["home to you" – idiomatic]]”, in Allting som ni gör kan jag göra bättre [Anything You Do, I Can Do Better [a cover album]]‎, performed by Magnus Uggla:

     Ska vi gå hem till dig eller hem till mig, eller var och en hem till sitt? Ska vi göra som dom andra och ägna oss åt varandra, eller ska var och en sköta sitt?

     Shall we go to your place ["home to you" – idiomatic] or to my place [home to me], or each one ["each and one" – idiomatic] home to theirs [nominalized – neuter gender is used when there is no concrete referent, like in impersonal constructions and here, as a rule of thumb]? Shall we do like the others and spend time on each other [engage in each other as an activity – doesn't have the connotations of "devote"], or shall each one mind [take care of] theirs [nominalized]?

   • 1981, X Models, “Två av oss [Two of us]”‎:

     Det finns bara en av mig och det är jag. Det finns bara en av dig och det är du. Det finns bara två av oss, och det är vi.

     There is only one of me and that is I. There is only one of you [object] and that is you [subject]. There are only two of us, and that is us [we – subject]. [Swedish has some of the same subject/object fuzziness as English, but a standalone "Det är <pronoun>" idiomatically (through intuition rather than being taught) uses the subject form]

2. reflexive of jag; compare myself

   Jag skar mig på kniven.

   I cut myself on the knife.

   (literally, “I cut me on the knife.”)

Usage notes

• Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse jag lär mig att... ("I learn to...") [reflexive] with du lär mig att... ("you teach me to...") and jag lär mig själv att... ("I teach myself to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "mig själv" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.
• Mej (along with dej) was popular as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s (as well as long before that, separately), and is therefore seen in many old song lyrics, for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to mig.

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person		nominative	oblique	possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

See also

• mig själv
• själv

References

• jag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• jag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)