मी

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Ahirani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

मी ()

  1. I

Further reading[edit]

  • डॉ॰ रमेश सीताराम सूर्यवंशी [Dr Ramesh Sitaram Suryawanshi] (1997) “मि / मी”, in आहिराणी शब्दकोश (आहिराणी - मराठी) [Ahirani Dictionary (Ahirani - Marathi)]‎[1] (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: अक्षय प्रकाशन [Akshaya Prakashan], →ISBN, page 255, column 1; republished कन्नड तालुका, औरंगाबाद जिल्हा [Kannad Taluka, Aurangabad District]: अभ्यासिका प्रकाशन [Abhyasika Prakashan], 2013.

Marathi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Marathi 𑘦𑘲 ().

Pronoun[edit]

मी ()

  1. I
    मी तिथे जाणार नाही.
    tithe jāṇār nāhī.
    I won't go there.

See also[edit]

Sanskrit[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (to lessen, small, little). Cognate with Lithuanian menkas (negligible), Russian меньше (menʹše, less); Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, alone) whence English mono-; Latin minuō whence English minute, diminish, etc.; Latin minus, minor, minimum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Root[edit]

मी ()

  1. to lessen, diminish
  2. to destroy

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0818.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मी”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 120
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मी”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

Sherpa[edit]

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Noun[edit]

मी () (Tibetan Spelling མི)

  1. human