mie

• IPA^(key): /bĩˈe/

mie m (plural mieva, feminine mieco)

1. anteater Myrmeco phaga tridactyla

• mijacʉ
• cʉ̃oroyʉ

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "mie", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /mi/

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• Hyphenation: mie
• Rhymes: -i

From Mie, a contraction of the common Dutch name Marie, from Maria, from Vulgate Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מרים (Maryām), corresponding to the Hebrew מרים (Miryām).

mie f (plural mies, diminutive mieke n)

1. (Belgium, colloquial) woman

   Synonym: trees

Especially the diminutive mieke is common in Belgium, meaning "girl". The standard diminutive on -tje is rare.

• babbelmie
• poppemie
• schattemie
• seutemie
• truttemie
• zagemie
• zottemie

From Indonesian mi, from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).

mie m (uncountable)

1. Chinese-style wheat noodle (e.g. ramen)

• glasmie

• bami

Dialectal variant of minä (through miä); see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *minä, for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯/, [ˈmie̞̯]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): mie

mie

1. (personal, dialectal, South Karelia, Lapland, parts of Kymenlaakso, most of North Karelia) I (1st person singular personal pronoun).

• In Lapland, forms starting with miu- are not used, instead forms of minä or mä are used.

South Karelia and Kymenlaakso, except Lappeenranta:

Lappeenranta:

North Karelia:

• minä (standard Finnish; see it for full list)

• emi, ime

• IPA^(key): /mi/
• Homophones: mi, mies, mis, mit, mît

Inherited from Old French mie, from Latin mīca. Doublet of miche, from a Vulgar Latin variant, and mica, a learned borrowing.

mie f (plural mies)

1. soft part (of bread), crumb (of loaf)

mie

1. (archaic, used with ne) not

   Synonym: pas

   Ne parle mie ― Do not speak (literally, “Do not speak a crumb”)

• miette
• pain de mie

• micelle
• miche

From rebracketing of Middle French m’amie as ma mie. The Middle French is equivalent to modern *ma amie; the use of masculine mon before vowel-initial feminines was already common, but not yet obligatory.

mie f (plural mies)

1. (archaic) ladylove, beloved

• “mie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

mie

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of miar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

mie

1. feminine plural of mio

• -ime, emi, emi-, ime, mei

From Proto-Finnic *minä. Cognates include Finnish minä and Estonian mina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯/
• Hyphenation: mie

mie

1. I

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “mie”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “я”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

From Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic *minä, from Proto-Uralic *minä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯/

mie

1. I

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

mie

1. Nonstandard spelling of miē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mié.
3. Nonstandard spelling of miè.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Old Irish maith, from Proto-Celtic *matis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“good”). Cognate with Welsh mad, Breton mad, Cornish mas. Compare Irish maith, Scottish Gaelic math.

• IPA^(key): /maɪ/

mie (comparative and superlative forms share)

1. good

   Cha dooar rieau drogh veaynee corran mie.

   A bad reaper never got a good sickle.

   Cha jeanym drogh-hurn y chooilleeney son turn mie.

   I won’t do a bad turn in exchange for a good turn.

2. moral
3. favourable

mie (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of mi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mie f (plural mies)

1. (Jersey, agriculture) ploughed soil

From Latin mīca.

mie oblique singular, f (oblique plural mies, nominative singular mie, nominative plural mies)

1. crumb (of bread, etc.)

• French: mie

mie

1. (used with "ne") not

mie

1. me, myself

• die (you, thee)
• am (him)
• mien (my)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

mie

1. inflection of miar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: mi‧e

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Inherited from Latin mīlia, plural of mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”). Doublet of milă. Compare Albanian mijë.

mie f (plural mii)

1. thousand

Inherited from Latin mihi, dative of ego.

mie (stressed dative form of eu)

1. (indirect object, first-person singular) (to) me

• îmi (unstressed form)

• sie, sieși
• ție

From Latin mihi.

mie (dative mie)

1. to me (first person singular dative pronoun)

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “míe”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz. Cognates include West Frisian my and German mir.

• IPA^(key): /mi/
• Hyphenation: mie
• Rhymes: -i

mie

1. myself

mie

1. oblique of iek; me

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “mie”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

mie m (feminine meje)

1. mine