Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: mi^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mi˩˧/

Noun

མི • ‎(mi)

1. person, human being

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)

1. (prepositional negative particle) not, un-