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English

mai

/maɪ/ · det

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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.

  1. my(English)
  2. マイ(Japanese)
  3. mai (English)
  4. Relations: obor, der

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