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my (mī) conj. interrogative particle
interrogative particle
JBA, Man
BT Ber 2b(15)↗ רישא מי נימא דפליגא‏ : should we say that the first part also disagrees? ; BT Ber 29a(42)↗ אטו כל השנה כולה מי עבדינן כותיה דר׳ עקיבה דהשת׳ נעביד‏ : do we rule "the whole year" according to PN that we should rule according to him now? ; JohnBook 126:9↗ mˁ ˁka ialda ḏnpaq mn kras ˁmẖ uˁtkamar bˁmẖ : is there a child that left its mother's womb and returned into its mother? ; GS 57:13↗ mˁiatlaikun dmuta akuat dmutai : do you have a shape like my shape?
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maka, maika : is there? who is it?
Man
JohnBook 22:4↗ miaka ḏbiš minai batar nhur : who is worse than me in light's realm? ; GY 164:12↗ maka ḏbdilia mṣia lmikibšan : who is it that can defeat me?
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Mand mi, mia, ˁmia often spelled as a proclitic
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See AIOA 136 for possible Akkadian origin.
Not to be confused with conjunctive mn used before participles in Gal. and spelled the same as this word.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJBA: 661bDrower/Macuch: 265a, 265b, 276

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