# मी
## Ahirani
### Alternative forms

* मि (mi)

### Pronoun

मी (mī)
* I

### Further reading

* डॉ॰ रमेश सीताराम सूर्यवंशी [Dr Ramesh Sitaram Suryawanshi] (1997) “मि / मी”, in आहिराणी शब्दकोश (आहिराणी - मराठी) [Ahirani Dictionary (Ahirani - Marathi)]‎ (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: अक्षय प्रकाशन [Akshaya Prakashan], →ISBN, page 255, column 1; republished कन्नड तालुका, औरंगाबाद जिल्हा [Kannad Taluka, Aurangabad District]: अभ्यासिका प्रकाशन [Abhyasika Prakashan], 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

* मला
* माझे, माझा, माझी
* आम्ही
* आपण

## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* মী (Assamese script)
* ᬫᬷ (Balinese script)
* মী (Bengali script)
* 𑰦𑰱 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀫𑀻 (Brahmi script)
* မီ (Burmese script)
* મી (Gujarati script)
* ਮੀ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌮𑍀 (Grantha script)
* ꦩꦷ (Javanese script)
* 𑂧𑂲 (Kaithi script)
* ಮೀ (Kannada script)
* មី (Khmer script)
* ມີ (Lao script)
* മീ (Malayalam script)
* ᠮᡳᡳ (Manchu script)
* 𑘦𑘲 (Modi script)
* ᠮᠢᠢ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧆𑧓 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐩𑐷 (Newa script)
* ମୀ (Odia script)
* ꢪꢷ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆩𑆵 (Sharada script)
* 𑖦𑖱 (Siddham script)
* මී (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩴𑩑𑩛 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚢𑚯 (Takri script)
* மீ (Tamil script)
* మీ (Telugu script)
* มี (Thai script)
* མཱི (Tibetan script)
* 𑒧𑒲 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨢𑨁𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to lessen, small, little”). Cognate with Russian меньше (menʹše, “less”); Latin minuō whence English minute, diminish, etc.; Latin minus, minor, minimum.

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /miː/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /miː/

### Root

मी • (mī)
* to lessen, diminish
* to destroy

#### Derived terms
##### Primary Verbal Forms

* मिनाति (minā́ti, Present)
* मीनाति (mīnā́ti, Present)
* मिनोति (minóti, Present)
* मीयते (mī́yate, Present)
* मास्यति (māsyáti, Future)
* मेष्यते (meṣyáte, Future)
* माता (mātā́, Periphrastic Future)
* अमेष्ट (ámeṣṭa, Aorist)
* अमास्त (ámāsta, Aorist)
* अमासीत् (ámāsīt, Aorist)
* मीयात् (mīyā́t, Benedictive)
* मिमाय (mimā́ya, Perfect)

##### Secondary Forms

* मीयते (mīyáte, Passive)
* अमायि (ámāyi, Passive Aorist)
* मापयति (māpáyati, Causative)
* अमीमपत् (ámīmapat, Causative Aorist)
* मिमीषति (mimīṣati, Desiderative)
* मित्सति (mitsati, Desiderative)
* मेमयीति (memayīti, Intensive)
* मेमीयते (memīyate, Intensive)

##### Non-Finite Forms

* मीत (mītá, Past Participle)
* मेतोस् (métos, Infinitive)
* मीत्वा (mītvā́, Gerund)

##### Prefixed Root Forms

* आमी (āmī)
* प्रमी (pramī)

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “मी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 818, column 2.
* 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 121
* 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
* Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “MAY$^I$”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 316-7
* Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “may$^i$”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 306
* 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 319
* 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) “711”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 711

## Sherpa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Noun

मी (mī) (Tibetan Spelling མི)
* human