mai

English dictionary entry

Meanings

det
  1. Alternative form of my.
name
  1. A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Mae/May, or borrowed from Scandinavia, with the same ultimate origin.
  2. A surname from Chinese of Chinese or German origin.
noun
  1. Initialism of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection.
  2. Initialism of machine augmented intelligence.

Pronunciation

/maɪ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mai.wav

Word forms

mai

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from the romanized form of Japanese マイ (mai), in turn a borrowing from English my, which it is treated as an alternate form of.

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