mir

Symbol

mir

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Isthmus Mixe.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Isthmus Mixe terms

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian мир (mir, “community, village commune; peace; world”).

Noun

mir (plural mirs)

1. (now historical) A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, charaterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands. [from 19th c.]
   • 1878, Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Russia, volumes 1-3, page 179:

     [T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.

   • R. Van Bergen, The Story of Russia, page 190:

     The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.

   • 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 169:

     Consisting of village elders elected by the male heads of household, the mir conducted almost all peasant business, fixing the dates for the agricultural year, deciding what, when and how crops should be grown, distributing plots of land on the open fields, collecting taxes and enforcing basic community discipline.

Anagrams

• IRM, MRI, RMI, rim

Etymology

From Middle High German mir (“we”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mir/ ((stressed) IPA^(key): /mɪːr/; (unstressed) IPA^(key): /mər/)

Pronoun

mir

1. (personal) we
2. (personal) dative singular of ich: (to) me

Pronoun

mir

1. Alternative spelling of mia (“me”, dative)
2. Alternative spelling of mia (“we”)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /miːɐ̯/

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• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /mɐ/, /mə/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German mir (“me”), from Old High German mir (“me”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Old English mē (“me”). More at me.

Etymology 2

From Middle High German mir (“we”). The form originated through assimilation of wir with a preceding verb form and subsequent unetymological segmentation. This is possibly already an Old High German development, since a common Old High German ending of the 1st person plural was -em, thus bittēm wir → *bittē-mir (modern bitten wir (“ask we, do we ask”)). The contraction as such is definitely old, though the common form of assimilation, both in written Old High German and written Middle High German, is through loss of the nasal: bittē wir. The form with mir may either be a younger development in Middle High German, or a more colloquial form that only later appeared in writing. Older age is suggested by the great dominance of mir throughout modern dialects of High German. Compare Yiddish מיר (mir), Luxembourgish mir. Compare also Old Norse mit (“we two”), Norwegian Nynorsk me (“we”).

Further reading

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

Alternative forms

• meer (some dialects)
• mehr (some dialects, including Münsterländisch)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːæ̯/ (Mecklenburg, Pomerania)
• IPA^(key): /miːə̯/ (Holstein, Lower Saxony, northern Brandenburg)
• IPA^(key): /miːr/ (southern Brandenburg)

Adjective

mir

1. (Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian, some Northern Low Saxon, parts of Brandenburg) comparative degree of vęl; more

Adjective

mir

1. inflection of mear:
   1. vocative/genitive masculine singular
   2. (archaic) dative feminine singular

Mutation

Pronunciation

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): /mɪr/
• (Maastrichtian) IPA^(key): /mir/

Pronoun

mir

1. (personal, obsolete) dative singular of ich: me, to me

   Mir gaaf t'r 't. ― He gave it to me.

Alternative forms

• mer (unstressed)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːr/, [miə̯], [ˈmiː.ɐ]

Etymology 1

From Middle High German mir.

Etymology 2

From Old High German wir through assimilation with a preceding verb ending (-n w- > -m-) and subsequent unetymological segmentation. See German mir (etymology 2) for the details. Compare also Luxembourgish dir (“you”), in which a similar development took place.

Declension

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [mʲirˠ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /mʲirˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {mir}

Adjective

mir

1. red, of reddish coconuts or the sky

Noun

mir

1. the color red, of reddish coconuts or the sky

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Noun

mir

1. word
2. language

Noun

mir

1. Alternative form of mirre

Etymology

From Old High German mir (“me”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Old English mē (“me”). More at me.

Pronoun

mir

1. me: dative singular of ich