Where does “μι” come from?

μι (Greek) comes from Italian mi, from Latin mihi, from Latin egō, from Proto-Italic egō, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

μι (Greek): mu, the 12th letter of the modern Greek alphabet

Definitions

  1. mu, the 12th letter of the modern Greek alphabet

Ancestry of “μι”, step by step

μι traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian mi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmime; The third note, mi; E
2Latinmihidative of ego, indirect object form; me; to me
3LatinegōI; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
4Proto-ItalicegōI
5Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I

via Ancient Greek μῦ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekμῦmu, the name for the twelfth letter Μ, μ of the...
2Phoenician𐤌𐤌water
3Proto-Semiticmāy-water
4Proto-Afroasiaticmaʔ-water

Words derived from “μι”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ →Every word from Proto-Italic egō →Every word from Latin egō →