mí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

Bassa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mí]

Noun

mí

1. (anatomy) hair
2. leaf

References

• Bassa-English Dictionary
• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bibaali

Noun

mí

1. water

References

• The Maya [Yendang] languages: Wordlists collected by Barau Kato and Zachariah Yoder: Analysis by Roger Blench

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiː]

Noun

mí n (indeclinable)

1. mu (Greek letter)

Pronoun

mí

1. nominative animate plural of můj

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mí/

Pronoun

mí

1. we, us

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/
• Rhymes: -iː

  Homophone: mý

Noun

mí n (genitive singular mís, nominative plural mí)

1. (music) mi (note in solfège)

Declension

Declension of mí (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mí	míið	mí	míin
accusative	mí	míið	mí	míin
dative	míi	míinu	míum	míunum
genitive	mís	mísins	mía	míanna

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲiː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mí, from Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Noun

mí f (genitive singular míosa, nominative plural míonna)

1. month

Declension

Declension of mí (irregular)

bare forms singular plural nominative mí míonna vocative a mhí a mhíonna genitive míosa míonna dative mí mís (archaic, dialectal) míonna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an mhí na míonna genitive na míosa na míonna dative leis an mí leis an mís (archaic, dialectal) don mhí don mhís (archaic, dialectal) leis na míonna

Alternative forms:

• genitive singular: mí
• nominative plural: míosa
• genitive plural: míos
• dative plural: míosa, míosaibh, míonnaibh

Derived terms

• Mí Mheáin an tSamhraidh (“March”, literally “Month of Midsummer”)
• Mí na bhFaoilleach (“February”)
• Mí na Féile Bríde (“February”, literally “Month of St Bridget’s Day”)
• mí na meala (“honeymoon”)
• Mí na Nollag (“December”, literally “Month of Christmas”)
• mí na súl buí (“July”, literally “month of yellow eyes”)
• míosta (“menstrual”)
• míostraigh (“menstruate”) (blended with Latin mēnstruō)
• míosúil (“monthly”)

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish mide, from Old Irish mide, from Proto-Celtic *medyos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

Alternative forms

• midhe (superseded)

Noun

mí f (genitive singular mí)

1. middle

   Synonym: lár

Declension

Declension of mí (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative mí vocative a mhí genitive mí dative mí forms with the definite article singular nominative an mhí genitive na mí dative leis an mí don mhí

Etymology 3

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

mí m (genitive singular mí)

1. (music) mi, me

Declension

Declension of mí (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative mí vocative a mhí genitive mí dative mí forms with the definite article singular nominative an mí genitive an mhí dative leis an mí don mhí

Mutation

Mutated forms of mí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mí	mhí	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “mí”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 737; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “mí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Kpasam

Noun

mí

1. water

References

• The Maya [Yendang] languages: Wordlists collected by Barau Kato and Zachariah Yoder: Analysis by Roger Blench

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• mi — nonstandard

Pronunciation

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Romanization

mí (mi², Zhuyin ㄇㄧˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 冞
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 彌 / 弥
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 戂
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擟
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擳 / 𰓜
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攠
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檷 / 𪱾
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 河
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濐
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀰 / 弥
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 爢
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狙
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 猕
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 獮 / 狝
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 獼 / 猕
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓕 / 𤦀
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 眮
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 祢
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 禭
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籋 / 𥬞
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 糜
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 縻
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罙
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒾
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘪
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘼
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詸
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 謎 / 谜
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 迷
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醚
31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醾
32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醿
33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釄
34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 镾
35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靟
36. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鸍 / 𲍰
37. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麊
38. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麋
39. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麍
40. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麛

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mīns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiː/

Noun

mí m (genitive mís, nominative plural mís)

1. month

Declension

Masculine irregular

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	míH	míL	mís
vocative	míH	míL	mísaH
accusative	mísN	míL	mísaH
genitive	mís	míL	mísN
dative	mísL	mísaib	mísaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: mí
• Manx: mee
• Scottish Gaelic: mìos

Mutation

Mutation of mí

radical	lenition	nasalization
mí also mmí in h-prothesis environments	mí pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/	mí also mmí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mihi, dative of ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi/ [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: mí

Pronoun

mí

1. me; (declined form of yo used as the object of a preposition)

Derived terms

• a mí qué
• por mí

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				Nominative	Disjunctive	Dative	Accusative	Comitative
First-person	Singular			yo	mí	me		conmigo
	Plural	Masculine1		nosotros		nos		—
		Feminine		nosotras
Second-person	Singular	Tuteo		tú	ti	te		contigo
		Voseo		vos	—
		Formal2	Masculine1	usted		le, se3	lo
			Feminine				la
	Plural	Familiar4	Masculine1	vosotros		os
			Feminine	vosotras
		Formal/general2	Masculine1	ustedes		les, se3	los
			Feminine				las
Third-person	Singular	Masculine1		él		le, se3	lo
		Feminine		ella			la
		Neuter		ello5			lo
	Plural	Masculine1		ellos		les, se3	los
		Feminine		ellas			las
	Reflexive			—	sí	se		consigo

1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
3. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g. se lo dije instead of *le lo dije).
4. Used primarily in Spain.
5. Used only in rare circumstances.

Further reading

• “mí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Vietnamese

Etymology

Ferlus reconstructed Proto-Vietic *k-piːl ~ *ɓiːlʔ (“eyelid”). This is a curious etymology.

The potential Muong Bi cognate pèl is attested in Từ điển Mường-Việt (2002), having an A tone and pointing to a plain stop, while the Vietnamese word has a nasal, which points to the implosive *ɓ, and a B tone. The various clearly cognate forms are attested in Ngữ âm tiếng Mường qua các phương ngôn (1982), with both forms showing tone A (akin to Mường Bi) and tone B (akin to Vietnamese). Tho [Cuối Chăm] biːl³ agrees with Vietnamese in both initial and tone.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mi˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɪj˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɪj˦˥]

Noun

mí • (睸, 𥈢, 𦝺)

1. eyelid