မီ
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mì/
- Romanization: MLCTS: mi • ALA-LC: mī • BGN/PCGN: mi • Okell: mi
Etymology 1
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)
Verb
[edit]မီ • (mi)
Derived terms
[edit]- ခါတော်မီ (hkataumi)
- ခေတ်မီ (hketmi)
- စံချိန်မီ (camhkyinmi)
- စံမီ (cammi)
- ဆေးမီ (hce:mi)
- ဉာဏ်မီ (nyanmi)
- ထုံးမီစံမျှ (htum:micamhmya.)
- ပေမီ (pemi)
- ပေမီဒေါက်မီ (pemidaukmi)
- မ မီ (ma. mi)
- မမီမကမ်း (ma.mima.kam:)
- ရှေးမီနောက်မီ (hre:minaukmi)
- ရေမီ (remi)
- လက်လှမ်းမီ (lakhlam:mi)
- သိမီ (si.mi)
- အချိန်မီ (a.hkyinmi)
- အခါမီ (a.hkami)
- အမီ (a.mi)
- အလျဉ်မီ (a.lyanymi)
- အလှမ်းမီ (a.hlam:mi)
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looks like a semantic extension and grammaticalization of Etymology 1.”)
Particle
[edit]မီ • (mi)
Further reading
[edit]- “မီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Shan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”). Cognate with Thai หมี (mǐi), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩦ, Lao ໝີ (mī), Lü ᦖᦲ (ṁii), Tai Dam ꪢꪲ, Ahom 𑜉𑜣 (mī), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue, Bouyei moil. Compare Old Chinese 羋 (OC *meʔ).