མི

See also: མ, མེ, and མོ

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n. Cognate to Chinese 民 (mín).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi˥/

Noun

མི (mi)

person, human
people, set of persons
mortal
man
-er (agent noun-forming suffix)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi˩/

Adverb

མི (mi)

not, non-

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n.

Noun

མི (mi) (Devanagari spelling मि)

man

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n. Cognate to Chinese 民 (mín).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mi/
Lhasa: /mi˩˨/
Batang: /mi˥˧/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mi/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: mi^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mi˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /mi˥˧/

Noun

མི • (mi)

person, human being, man

Derived terms

དམག་མི (dmag mi)
ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མི (phyi rgyal gyi mi)
མི་ཚང (mi tshang)
མི་ཚོགས (mi tshogs, “crowd”)
མི་སེར (mi ser, “serf”)
མིའི་གསོབ (mi'i gsob, “mannequin”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-. Variant of མ (ma), used in situations where མ (ma) is not used, usually with present and future stems of verbs.

Adverb

མི • (mi)

(prepositional negative particle) not, un-

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