myn

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Translingual

Symbol

myn

1. ISO 639-1 code 2&5, ISO 639-3 code Mayan languages languages (SIL)

English

Etymology 1

Noun

myn (plural myns)

1. Obsolete form of mine.

Etymology 2

Adjective

myn (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of mean.

Noun

myn (plural myns)

1. Obsolete form of mean.

Etymology 3

Respelling of men based on womyn, which was itself respelled so as to be spelled differently from men.

Noun

myn pl (plural only)

1. (very rare, chiefly humorous) Alternativno spelovanje od men (plural of manMYN)
   • 1994, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, →ISBN, page 41:

     Old Yeller — Senior animal companion of color.
     Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — One of the monocultural oppressed womyn confronts the vertically challenged.
     Men at Arms — The myn are at it again.

   • 2000 April, Out, volume 8, number 10, page 54:

     […] the 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival is here. (Once again, myn are strictly forbidden.) The weekend-long event holds the promise of craft markets, acoustic folk sing-alongs, and Southern-food potlucks.

   • 2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender, →ISBN, page 30:

     I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be). But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.

See also

• mxn

Anagrams

• -nym, nym ^{(alphagram mny)}

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Holandski mijn, from Middle Dutch mine, from Stari Francuski mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”). Some senses were borrowed in Dutch from Francuski mine (“explosive device”) and Middle French mine (“tunnel for sapping”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

myn (plural myne, diminutive myntjie)

1. mine (place or tunnel for the excavation of mineral resources)
2. mine (hidden device that explodes when triggered)
3. mine (tunnel used for sapping enemy defence works or lines)

Derived terms

• diamantmyn
• goudmyn
• koolmyn
• mynbou
• mynskag
• seemyn
• silwermyn

 

Middle English

Determiner

myn (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of min

Pronoun

myn (subjective I)

1. Alternative form of min

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) MFA^(ključ): /mɨn/
• (South Wales) MFA^(ključ): /mɪn/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *mendo- (“kid, suckling”), which could ultimately be from the same root as mwyn (“mild, tender”), though Stokes prefers a comparison to Antički Grčki μαζός (mazós, “breast”), Old High German manzon, Albanski mεnt (“suck”).

Cognate with Cornish mynn, Irski meonnán, Scottish Gaelic meann and Manx mannan.

Noun

1. kid (young goat)

   Sinonim: myn gafr

Usage notes

The word myn is usually found in the combination myn gafr rather than being used as a standalone word.

Derived terms

• myn gafr (“kid, young goat”)

Etymology 2

Probably from mwyn.

Preposition

myn

1. by (used only in oaths)

   Sinonim: neno

   myn Duw ― by God!

Further reading

• Šablon:R:cy:GPC

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mīn, from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *mīn.

Pronunciation

• (Wood) MFA^(ključ): /min/
• (Clay) MFA^(ključ): /mɛɪ̯n/

Determiner

myn

1. my (first-person singular possessive determiner)

Derived terms

• mefrou
• mynhear

Further reading

• “myn (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal‎^[1] (in Holandski), 2011