मैं
Dogri[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Khasa Prakrit [Term?] (compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae)), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.
Pronoun[edit]
मैं (ma͠i)
Hindi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Hindi मैं (maiṃ), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.[1][2][3]
Cognate to Punjabi ਮੈਂ (maĩ), Nepali म (ma), Assamese মই (moi), Odia ମୁଁ (mũ) , Sylheti ꠝꠥꠁ (mui), Bengali মুই (mui), Marathi मी (mī), all deriving from oblique forms of the first-person personal pronoun.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
मैं • (ma͠i) m or f (Urdu spelling مَیں)
- I (the first person personal singular pronoun)
Inflection[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- हम (ham) (dialectal, colloquial)
References[edit]
- ^ Vit Bubenik, Chitra Paranjape (1996 April) “Development of Pronominal Systems from Apabhraṃśa to New Indo-Aryan”, in Indo-Iranian Journal[1], volume 39, number 2, Brill, pages 111–132
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
- ^ Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages[2], Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass.
Further reading[edit]
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मैं”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Platts, John T. (1884) “मैं”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “मैं”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
Kumaoni[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Khasa Prakrit [Term?] (compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae)), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.
Pronoun[edit]
मैं (ma͠i)
Old Hindi[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- मै (mai)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa मइं (maĩ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH (the instrumental singular of *aȷ́ʰám (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁móy.
Pronoun[edit]
मैं (maiṃ)
Descendants[edit]
- Dogri terms inherited from Khasa Prakrit
- Dogri terms derived from Khasa Prakrit
- Dogri terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Dogri terms derived from Sanskrit
- Dogri terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Dogri terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Dogri terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Dogri terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Dogri lemmas
- Dogri pronouns
- Hindi terms inherited from Old Hindi
- Hindi terms derived from Old Hindi
- Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa
- Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Apabhramsa
- Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Hindi terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit
- Hindi terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Hindi terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Hindi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hindi terms with audio links
- Hindi lemmas
- Hindi pronouns
- Hindi terms spelled with ं
- Hindi terms with usage examples
- Kumaoni terms inherited from Khasa Prakrit
- Kumaoni terms derived from Khasa Prakrit
- Kumaoni terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Kumaoni terms derived from Sanskrit
- Kumaoni terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Kumaoni terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Kumaoni terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Kumaoni terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Kumaoni lemmas
- Kumaoni pronouns
- Old Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa
- Old Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Apabhramsa
- Old Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Old Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Old Hindi terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Old Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old Hindi terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Old Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Old Hindi terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Hindi lemmas
- Old Hindi pronouns
- Old Hindi terms with quotations