mid

• IPA^(key): /mɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

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From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle.

mid (not comparable)

1. Denoting the middle part.

   mid ocean

2. Occupying a middle position; middle.

   mid finger

   mid hour of night

3. (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
4. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Of marijuana, midgrade.
5. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Of mediocre quality.
   • 2021 July 26, Reanna Cruz, “Lil Nas X, 'INDUSTRY BABY'”, in NPR‎:

     The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst).

mid

1. Amid.

   Mid the best.

See also those listed at Category:English terms prefixed with mid-.

• midday
• midnight

From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.

mid (plural mids)

1. (archaic) middle
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     About the mid of night come to my tent.

Clipping of mid-range.

mid (plural mids)

1. (disc golf) A mid-range.

From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of use by the end of the 1300s[1] and survived into the modern English period only in the compounds mididone, midwife, and theremid.

mid

1. (in representations of German-accented English) With.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.

Shortening of middling or similar. Compare midwit.

mid

1. (Internet slang) Trashy; low-quality.

• mid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.

• met (in some dialects)
• mit (in some dialects)
• möt (Low Prussian)

From Middle Low German mit, mid, from Old Saxon mid. Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), German mit (“with”). For more, see Middle English mid.

• IPA^(key): /mɪt/

mid

1. (in some dialects) with

mi (“what”) +‎ -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmid]
• Hyphenation: mid

mid

1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of mi

Inherited from Old English mid (“with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, into the presence of, through, by means of, by, among, in, at (time), in the sight of, opinion of”, preposition), from Proto-West Germanic *midi (“with”).

Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), Low German mit (“with”), German mit (“with”), Danish med (“with”), Icelandic með (“with”), Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “among, between, with”), Albanian me (“with, together”), Sanskrit स्मत् (smat, “together, at the same time”).

• med, medde, midde, mide, mit

• IPA^(key): /mid/

mid

1. with
2. amid, amidst

• “mid (adj. & pref.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

Inherited from Old English midd.

• med, medde, midde, mide, mit

• IPA^(key): /mid/

mid

1. mid-, middle, central, intermediate
2. that is or are in the middle or intermediate in time

• English: mid

• “mid (adj. & pref.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

From Old Norse miðr, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“middle, mid”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“middle”).

• IPA^(key): /mɪː/

mid m or f (neuter midt, comparative midre, superlative midst)

1. middle

• “mid” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• mit, miþ, mið

From Proto-West Germanic *midi. Compare Old Saxon mid, Old High German mit, Old Norse með.

• IPA^(key): /mid/

mid

1. with

• Middle English: mid

From Proto-Celtic *medu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.[1]

mid n (genitive meda)

1. mead
   • c. 815–840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 40,

     mesce tre ol corma(e) nó chingiti meda(e)

     tipsiness through drinking beer or a goblet of mead

• Middle Irish: mid
  • Irish: meá
  • Scottish Gaelic: meadh

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• midi, mit, mith, met

From Proto-West Germanic *midi.

mid

1. with

mid

1. with, together, along

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji micca and Hadiyya mato.

mid

1. one

• Somali Wörterbuch by M. A. Farah - D. Heck (Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1993)