mig

Etymology

Probably from a pronunciation of mg.

Noun

mig (plural migs)

1. A milligram
   • 1997 August 29, Rob Boyd, “androstenedione”, in alt.baldspot‎ (Usenet):

     I'm on 400 migs of T and 200 of trenbelone and in the middle of growing some hair I havent seen 10 years

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mig, from Latin medius (compare Occitan mièg, French mi-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmit͡ʃ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Adjective

mig (feminine mitja, masculine plural migs or mitjos, feminine plural mitges)

1. middle; mid-

   mitjanit ― midnight

2. half

   mitja hora ― half hour

Further reading

• “mig” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mig”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mig” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑj/, [ˈmɑ̈(j)]
• Rhymes: -aj

Pronoun

mig (nominative jeg, possessive min)

1. (personal) first person singular accusative personal pronoun; me
2. (personal, nonstandard, when before other terms in a list) first person singular nominative personal pronoun; I

   Mig og min bror tog til stranden.

   Me and my brother went to the beach.

Etymology

From Old Norse mik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪːɣ/

  Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

Pronoun

mig

1. (personal) accusative of ég; me

   Þú drapst mig.

   You killed me.

2. myself

   Ég brenndi mig.

   I burnt myself.

Noun

mig

1. Alternative form of mygge

Noun

mig n (definite singular miget, indefinite plural mig, definite plural miga)

1. piss

Verb

mig

1. inflection of miga:
   1. present
   2. imperative

References

• “mig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pronoun

mig

1. Alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: mig

Etymology 1

Deverbal from migać.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian МиГ (MiG).

Further reading

• mig in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mig in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mig in PWN's encyclopedia

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ.

Noun

mȋg m (Cyrillic spelling ми̑г)

1. wink
2. hint
3. cue

Alternative forms

• mej (colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛj/

• Audio:

  (file)

• (Scania) IPA^(key): /maj/
• Rhymes: -ɛj, -aj
• Homophone: maj (Scania)

Pronoun

mig

1. me (objective case)

   Såg du mig aldrig där?

   Did you never see me there?

   Kan du lära mig att jonglera?

   Can you teach me how to juggle?

   • 1981, X Models (lyrics and music), “Två av oss [Two of us]”‎:

     Det finns bara en av mig och det är jag. Det finns bara en av dig och det är du. Det finns bara två av oss, och det är vi.

     There is only one of me and that is I. There is only one of you [object] and that is you [subject]. There are only two of us, and that is us [we – subject]. [Swedish has some of the same subject/object fuzziness as English, but a standalone "Det är <pronoun>" idiomatically (through intuition rather than being taught) uses the subject form]

2. reflexive of jag; compare myself

   Jag skar mig på kniven.

   I cut myself on the knife.

   (literally, “I cut me on the knife.”)

References

• jag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• jag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)