मी

मी

Ahirani

Alternative forms

• मि (mi)

Pronoun

मी (mī)

1. I

Further reading

• डॉ॰ रमेश सीताराम सूर्यवंशी [Dr Ramesh Sitaram Suryawanshi] (1997), “मि / मी”, in आहिराणी शब्दकोश (आहिराणी - मराठी) [Ahirani Dictionary (Ahirani - Marathi)] (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.

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Marathi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Marathi 𑘦𑘲 (mī).

Pronoun

मी • (mī)

1. I

   मी तिथे जाणार नाही.

   mī tithe jāṇār nāhī.

   I won't go there.

See also

• मला
• माझे, माझा, माझी
• आम्ही
• आपण

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Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• ᬫᬷ (Balinese script)
• মী (Assamese script)
• মী (Bengali script)
• 𑰦𑰱 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀫𑀻 (Brahmi script)
• 𑌮𑍀 (Grantha script)
• મી (Gujarati script)
• ਮੀ (Gurmukhi script)
• ꦩꦷ (Javanese script)
• មី (Khmer script)
• ಮೀ (Kannada script)
• ມີ (Lao script)
• മീ (Malayalam script)
• 𑘦𑘲 (Modi script)
• ᠮᢈᢈ (Mongolian script)
• ᠮᡳᡳ (Manchu script)
• မီ (Burmese script)
• 𑧆𑧓 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐩𑐷 (Newa script)
• ମୀ (Oriya script)
• ꢪꢷ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆩𑆵 (Sharada script)
• 𑖦𑖱 (Siddham script)
• මී (Sinhalese script)
• మీ (Telugu script)
• มี (Thai script)
• མཱི (Tibetan script)
• 𑒧𑒲 (Tirhuta script)

Etymology

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

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /miː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /miː/

Root

मी • (mī)

1. to lessen, diminish
2. to destroy

Derived terms

• मीनाति (mīnā́ti)
• मिनोति (minóti)
• मीयते (mī́yate)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899), “मी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, 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

• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 317
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 427
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0711

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Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

मी (mī) (Tibetan Spelling མི)

1. human