मी

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Ahirani

Alternative forms

मि (mi)

Pronoun

मी (mī)

I

Further reading

डॉ॰ रमेश सीताराम सूर्यवंशी (1997) “मि / मी”, in आहिराणी शब्दकोश (आहिराणी - मराठी) [Ahirani Dictionary (Ahirani - Marathi)]‎ (in Marathi), पुणे : अक्षय प्रकाशन , →ISBN, page 255, column 1; republished कन्नड तालुका, औरंगाबाद जिल्हा : अभ्यासिका प्रकाशन , 2013.

Marathi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Marathi 𑘦𑘲 (mī).

Pronoun

मी • (mī)

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

See also

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

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 Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /miː/

Root

मी • (mī)

to lessen, diminish
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, 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. with 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, page 427
Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 0711, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0711

Sherpa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi/

Noun

मी (mī) (Tibetan Spelling མི)

human

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