miki

See also: Miki

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Verb

miki

  1. to die.

Hausa

Noun

mīkì m (possessed form mīkìn)

  1. vulture

Japanese

Romanization

miki

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みき

Maranao

Noun

miki

  1. noodle

References

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *mɨkɨ, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *muku- or *muki-. Compare Classical Nahuatl miqui (“to die”).

Pronunciation
  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈmiki/
  • (Witzapan) IPA(key): /ˈmiɣi/

Verb

miki

  1. (intransitive) to die
    Ne mukunew teutak mikik
    Your son died in the evening

Derived terms
  • -miktia (“to kill”)
  • mikini (“dead person, corpse”)
  • mikilis (“death”)
  • miktan (“depths” or “Hell”)
  • āmiki (“to be thirsty”)
  • ijiumiki (“to sigh”)
  • sekmiki (“to feel cold”)
  • tūnalmiki (“to wither from heat”)
  • yūlmiki (“to have a heart attack”)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 麵羹／面羹 (mī-kiⁿ, “noodle soup/broth”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiki/, [ˈmi.xɪ]
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ki

Noun

miki (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜃᜒ)

  1. a type of noodle

References
  1. Lim, Vicente (1941) Chinese-English-Tagalog-Spanish Business conversation and social contact with Amoy pronunciation‎, Manila: Poc Bon Book Co., page 112

Further reading
  • “miki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 138
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 41
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