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mie

/mi/

noun, feminine/mi/plural: mies

crumb (small piece of bread); crumb (soft inside part of bread)

Inherited from Old French mie, from Latin mīca. Doublet of miche, from a Vulgar Latin variant, and mica, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Italian mica.

adverb/mi/

not

Ne parle mieDo not speak

Synonyms: pas

Inherited from Old French mie, from Latin mīca. Doublet of miche, from a Vulgar Latin variant, and mica, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Italian mica.

noun, feminine/mi/plural: mies

ladylove, beloved

From rebracketing of Middle French m’amie as ma mie. The Middle French is equivalent to modern *ma amie; the use of masculine mon before vowel-initial feminines was already common, but not yet obligatory.