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Mir

Mir

(mēr)
,
Noun.
[Russ.
mir’
.]
A Russian village community.
D. M. Wallace.

Mir

,
Noun.
[Per.
mīr
.]
Same as
Emir
.

Definition 2024


Mir

Mir

See also: mir, MIR, miR, mír, mìr, and mir.

English

Mir space station

Proper noun

Mir

  1. A Soviet, later Russian space station.

Translations

Anagrams


Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian Мир (Mir), from мир (mir, peace).

Proper noun

Mir f

  1. Mir (an international space station)

mir

mir

See also: mir., mír, mìr, miR, Mir, and MIR

English

Noun

mir (plural mirs)

  1. A Russian village community.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of D. M. Wallace to this entry?)
    • 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.

Anagrams


Alemannic German

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

Declension


German

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /miːɐ̯/
  • 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-Germanic *miz (me), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (me). Cognate with Old English (me). More at me.

Pronoun

mir

  1. (personal) dative of ich: me, to me:
    Er gab es mir.
    He gave it to me.

Derived terms

  • mirs (it to me) (contraction of mir es)

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.

Pronoun

mir

  1. (regional, dialectal or colloquial) Alternative form of wir (we)
Usage notes
  • The form is not common in those parts of northern Germany where Low German dialects have traditionally been spoken.

German Low German

Alternative forms

  • meer (Dialects other than specified below)

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

comparative degree of vęl

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

Numeral

comparative degree of vęl

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

Irish

Adjective

mir

  1. vocative masculine singular of mear
  2. genitive masculine singular of mear
  3. (archaic) dative feminine singular of mear

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mir mhir unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Limburgish

Pronunciation

  • (most dialects) IPA(key): /mɪr/
  • (Maastricht) IPA(key): /mir/

Pronoun

mir

  1. (personal) (obsolete) dative of ich; me, to me:
    • Mir gaaf t'r 't.
      • He gave it to me.

See also


Lojban

Rafsi

mir

  1. rafsi of minra.

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

  • mer (unstressed)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miə̯/

Etymology 1

From Old High German mir.

Pronoun

mir

  1. first-person singular, dative: me, to me
    Dat brauchs de mir net ze erklären.
    You don’t have to explain that to me.

Etymology 2

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

Pronoun

mir

  1. first-person plural, nominative: we
    Mir hu véier Hausdéieren. We have four pets.

Declension


Meriam

Noun

mir

  1. word
  2. language

Middle High German

Etymology

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

Pronoun

mir

  1. me: dative singular of ich

Descendants


Romanian

Etymology 1

From Greek μύρον (mýron), partly through the Slavic intermediate miro. Compare also Aromanian mir.

Noun

mir n (plural miruri)

  1. chrism
  2. unction
  3. holy oil
See also

Etymology 2

Verb

mir

  1. first-person singular present tense form of mira.
  2. first-person singular subjunctive form of mira.

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin mūrus.

Noun

mir m (plural mirs)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) exterior wall
Alternative forms
  • meir (Surmiran)
  • mür (Puter, Vallader)
Related terms
  • paraid (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
  • preit (Sursilvan)
  • pare (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology 2

From Latin murem, the accusative singular form of mūs (mouse).

Noun

mir f (plural mirs)

  1. (Sutsilvan) mouse
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mirъ (peace; world).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mîːr/

Noun

mȋr m (Cyrillic spelling ми̑р)

  1. peace
    Nobelova nagrada za mir ― Nobel peace prize
    centar grada je oaza mira i zelenila ― city center is an oasis of peace and greenery
    mirovna konferencija ― peace conference
  2. calm, tranquility
    ostavi me na miru! ― leave me alone!
    pusti me na miru! ― leave me alone!

Declension

Derived terms

  • uznemirivati

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mirъ (peace; world).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmíːr/
  • Tonal orthography: mȋr

Noun

mír m inan (genitive mirú or míra, uncountable)

  1. peace (tranquility, quiet, harmony)

Declension


Tolai

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mir

  1. First-person exclusive dual pronoun: he/she and I, him/her and me

Declension



Veps

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian мир (mir).

Noun

mir

  1. world

Inflection

Inflection of mir
nominative sing. mir
genitive sing. mirun
partitive sing. mirud
partitive plur. miruid
singular plural
nominative mir mirud
accusative mirun mirud
genitive mirun miruiden
partitive mirud miruid
essive-instructive mirun miruin
translative miruks miruikš
inessive mirus miruiš
elative miruspäi miruišpäi
illative ? miruihe
adessive mirul miruil
ablative mirulpäi miruilpäi
allative mirule miruile
abessive miruta miruita
comitative mirunke miruidenke
prolative mirudme miruidme
approximative I mirunno miruidenno
approximative II mirunnoks miruidennoks
egressive mirunnopäi miruidennopäi
terminative I ? miruihesai
terminative II mirulesai miruilesai
terminative III mirussai
additive I ? miruihepäi
additive II mirulepäi miruilepäi

Synonyms

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), мир, свет”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika