מִי

Judeo-Italian

Etymology

PIE word
*éǵh₂

From Classical Latin mē (“me, myself”, accusative singular of egō̆ (“I”, 1^st-person singular personal pronoun)) and, as an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from mihi (“to me”, dative singular of egō̆).

Pronoun

מִי (mi)

1. me (1^st-person singular personal pronoun, as the object of a verb)
   • 16^th century [750–450 BCE], “לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יִרְמִיַהוּ [Lu libero de Jirmiau, The Book of Jeremiah]”, in נְבִיאִים [Neviim, Prophets]‎^[1] (manuscript), translation of נְבִיאִים (Nəvīʾīm, “Prophets”) (in Biblical Hebrew), chapter 7, verse 26, leaf 2, left page, lines 2–4:

     אֵי נוּן אִינְטֵיסֵירוֹ אַה מִי אֵי נוּן קְלֵינַארוֹ לַה רֵיקֵילַה לוּרַה אֵי אִינְדוּרִירוֹ לוּ צֵיפֵיצוֹ לוּרוֹ מַאלִינַארוֹ פְלוּ קֵי לִי פַאטֵירִי לוּרִי׃ (Judeo-Roman)

     ʔe nun ʔinəṭesero ʔah mi ʔe nun qəlenaʔro lah reqelah lurah ʔe ʔinəduriro lu ṣepeṣo luro maʔlinaʔro pəlu qe li paʔteri luri

     /E nun intesero a mi, e nun clenaro la rechela lura, e induriro lu cepezzo luro; malinnaro plu che li pateri luri./

     And they did not listen to me, and did not pay attention, and became stiff-necked; they became worse than their fathers.

Related terms

• אִייוֹ (ʔiyo /⁠ijo⁠/)