mình

Etymology
From,.

The form mềnh appears to be more conservative and was widely used in the Northern dialects, while the now common form mình seems to be originally Central-Southern. In Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects, mềnh was the much more common form. In Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (1838), a dictionary based chiefly on the Southern dialects, the form mềnh has no entry, while mình is abundantly attested. The 🇨🇬 Bi cognate also points to  as being the more conservative form (cf. Vietnamese  vs. Muong Bi, Vietnamese  vs. Muong Bi , etc.)

Compare vs.,  vs. ,  vs..

For the semantic relationship, compare 🇨🇬 as well as 🇨🇬, which came to mean "oneself" in Kyūshū.

Noun

 * 1) a torso
 * 2)  a body
 * 1)  a body

Pronoun

 * 1)  I/me
 * 2) oneself
 * 3)  I/me
 * 4)  we/us
 * 5)  you
 * 1)  I/me
 * 2)  we/us
 * 3)  you
 * 1)  we/us
 * 2)  you
 * 1)  we/us
 * 2)  you
 * 1)  you
 * 1)  you

Adverb

 * 1)  only

Usage notes

 * On the Internet, mình is many speakers' pronoun of choice for "I", especially when chatting with strangers, because it carries a friendly yet not too intimate tone. In the spoken language, mình is usually the inclusive, intimate "we".
 * mình with the meaning "torso" and "body" is often colloquial, and the compounds such as or  are usually preferred in formal writing.