Mí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mi"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Mide, from mide (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲiː/

Proper noun

An Mhí f (genitive na Mí)

1. Meath (a county of Ireland)

Declension

Declension of Mí (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Mí vocative a Mhí genitive Mí dative Mí forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Mhí genitive na Mí dative leis an Mí don Mhí

Derived terms

• Míoch (“Meathman”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Mí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Mí	Mhí	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Mí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 Mide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language