मैं

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Dogri

Etymology

From Khasa Prakrit (compare Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae)), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (I)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.

Pronoun

मैं (ma͠i)

  1. I

Hindi

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Hindi मैं (maiṃ), from Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), from Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (I)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.[1][2][3]

    Cognate to Punjabi ਮੈਂ (maĩ), Nepali (ma), Assamese মই (moi), Odia ମୁଁ () , Sylheti ꠝꠥꠁ (mui), Bengali মুই (mui), Marathi मी (), all deriving from oblique forms of the first-person personal pronoun.

    Pronunciation

    • (Delhi) IPA(key): /mɛ̃ː/
    • (dialectal) (Delhi) IPA(key): /mə.ĩː/,
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    Pronoun

    मैं (ma͠im or f (Urdu spelling مَیں)

    1. I (the first person personal singular pronoun)
      मैं एक आदमी हूँma͠i ek ādmī hū̃.I am a man.

    Inflection

    Synonyms

    • हम (ham) (dialectal, colloquial)

    References

    1. ^ Vit Bubenik, Chitra Paranjape (1996 April) “Development of Pronominal Systems from Apabhraṃśa to New Indo-Aryan”, in Indo-Iranian Journal, volume 39, number 2, Brill, pages 111–132
    2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
    3. ^ Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass

    Further reading

    • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मैं”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
    • Platts, John T. (1884) “मैं”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
    • Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “मैं”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

    Kumaoni

    Etymology

    From Khasa Prakrit (compare Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae)), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (I)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.

    Pronoun

    मैं (ma͠i)

    1. I

    Old Hindi

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Inherited from Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), from Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (I)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.

      Pronoun

      मैं (maiṃ)

      1. I
        • c. 1500, Kabir, Assorted Poetry, pad 76, line 3:
          जग मैं देषूँ जग न देषि मोहि
          jaga maiṃ deṣūm̐ jaga na deṣi mohi
          I see the world, the world does not see me.

      Descendants

      • Hindustani:
        Hindi: मैं (ma͠i)
        Urdu: میں (ma͠i)