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Finnish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *meeli, from Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Estonian meel, Northern Sami miella, Erzya мeль (meľ), Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).
Pronunciation
Noun
mieli
- mind, reason (capability for rational thought)
- mielikuva ― image (literally, “mental picture”)
- mind (ability to be aware of, remember, and focus on things)
- sense, meaning, significance, regard
- siinä mielessä ― in that regard
- mood (mental or emotional state)
- hyvä mieli ― good mood (feeling happy or upbeat)
- paha mieli ― bad mood (feeling bad or upset)
- mind (desire, inclination)
- tehdä mieli ― to feel like, have the mind to
- one's attention, mind
- (philosophy) mind
- (now in expressions) mind, view, opinion (in general usage, largely supplanted by mielipide [coined in 1847], but still in use in certain expressions)
- minun mielestäni ― according to my opinion... / I think that...
- (in compounds) favorite
- Synonym: lempi-
- mieliruoka ― favorite dish
Declension
Derived terms
Collocations
Collocations
- olla mielessä ― to have in mind
- olla mieliksi (+ allative) ― to try to please somebody
- monessakin mielessä ― in many respects, in more ways than one
- painaa (jonkun) mieltä ― to bother, trouble, oppress, be on somebody's mind
- pitää mielessä ― to bear in mind, to keep in mind
Further reading
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmie̯li/, (third-person indicative)
- IPA(key): /ˈmie̯liˣ/, (imperative, indicative connegative)
- Rhymes: -ieli
- Hyphenation(key): mie‧li
Verb
mieli
- inflection of mieliä:
- third-person singular past indicative
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Anagrams
Ido
Noun
mieli
- plural of mielo
Italian
Noun
mieli m
- plural of miele
Karelian
Noun
mieli
- mind (sense)
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
mieli
- third-person plural virile past of mieć
Verb
mieli
- third-person singular present of mielić
Further reading
- mieli in Polish dictionaries at PWN