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.
/mi/
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.
not
“Ne parle mie” — Do 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.
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.