mich

See also: Mich, MICH, Mich., mích, and mịch

English

Verb

mich (third-person singular simple present miches, present participle miching, simple past and past participle miched)

1. Alternative form of mitch

Anagrams

• chim

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German mich (“me”). Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

mich

1. (Sette Comuni) accusative of ich: me

See also

Cimbrian personal pronouns

		nominative	accusative	dative
1st person singular		ich	mich	miar
2nd person singular	familiar	du	dich	diar
	polite	iart	ach	òich
3rd person singular	m	èar, ar	in, en	iime
	f	zi, ze		iar
	n	es, is	es, 's	iime
1st person plural		bar, bandare	zich	izàndarn
2nd person plural		iart, iartàndare, artàndare	òich, ach	ogàndarn
3rd person plural		ze, zòi, zandare	zich	innàndarn

References

• “mich” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

mich

1. fish.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German mich, from Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪç/

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Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me
2. reflexive pronoun of ich: myself

Further reading

• “mich” in Duden online
• “mich” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German mich, from Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪç/

Pronoun

mich

1. stressed and unstressed accusative of ich: me.

Inflection

Hunsrik personal pronouns

			nominative		accusative		dative
			proclitic	enclitic	stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed
singular	1st person		ich eich	-ich	mich meich		meer	mer m'r
	2nd person (informal)		du dau/Dau	-du, -de -Dau, -De	dich deich/Deich		deer	der d'r/D'r
	3rd person	m	er; där	-er	ihn	en	ihm	em
		f	sie; die	-se	sie / ihns	se	eer ehr	re
		n	es; das et, 't	's	es et	-et, -'t	ihm	em
plural	1st person		meer	mer	uns uhs
	2nd person		deer Ehr, Dehr	der	eich Auch
	3rd person		sie; die	-se	sie	se	denne

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• miich (Eupen)
• mech (Krefeld)

Pronunciation

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): /mɪx/
• (Maastrichtian) IPA^(key): /mix/
• (Cleverlandic dialects) IPA^(key): /mɪk/

Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• (obsolete, dialectal) mnich

Etymology

From earlier mnich, from Old High German munih, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, from Latin monachus, from Ancient Greek μονᾰχός (monăkhós, “solitary, single”).

Compare Upper Sorbian mnich, Old Czech mnich, Old Church Slavonic мънихъ (mŭnixŭ).

Noun

mich m anim (feminine mniška or mnichowka, diminutive mišk)

1. monk

Declension

Declension of mich

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mich	micha	michy
Genitive	micha	michowu	michow
Dative	michoju	michoma	micham
Accusative	micha	michowu	michy, michow
Instrumental	michom	michoma	michami
Locative	michu	michoma	michach

Derived terms

(nouns):

• michowka f
• mišk m
• mnichojstwo n
• mniška f

(adjectives):

• mnichojski

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mich”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mich”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronoun

mich

1. me: accusative singular of ich

Descendants

• Alemannic German: mich, mi
• Central Franconian: mich
• Cimbrian: mich
• East Central German: mihch, mich, miech
• German: mich
• Hunsrik: mich
• Luxembourgish: mech
• Pennsylvania German: mich
• Yiddish: מיך (mikh)

Old Swedish

Pronoun

mich

1. Alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German mich. Compare German mich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪç/

Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me

Declension

Pennsylvania German personal pronouns

Number	singular						plural
Person/ Gender	1st	2nd person		3rd person			1st	2nd	3rd
		familiar	polite/formal	m	f	n
nominative	ich	du de1	dihr der1 Sie	er	sie se1	es	mir mer1	dihr der1	sie
dative	mir mer1	dir der1	eich Ihne Ne1	ihm em1	ihre re1	ihm em1	uns	eich	ihne ne1
accusative	mich	dich	eich Sie	ihn en1	sie se1	es			sie

¹ unstressed

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmix/
• Rhymes: -ix
• Syllabification: mich

Noun

mich f

1. genitive plural of micha

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *megge, from Proto-West Germanic *muggju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪx/

Noun

mich c (plural miggen, diminutive michje)

1. fly
2. mosquito
3. shorty; short person

Derived terms

• miggesiftsje

Further reading

• “mich”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011