min

English Online Dictionary. What means min‎? What does min mean?

Translingual

Etymology 1

Clipping of English minimum.

Symbol

min

1. (mathematics) minimum function

Etymology 2

Clipping of English minute.

Symbol

min

1. (metrology) minute in International System of Units

Etymology 3

Clipping of English Minangkabau.

Symbol

min

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Minangkabau.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Minangkabau terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• min.

Noun

min (plural mins)

1. Abbreviation of minute.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of minute.

Etymology 2

From Middle English min, from Old English min (“less; small, mean”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min (“less, lesser”), West Frisian min (“small, bad”), Dutch min (“less, small”), Low German minn (“small, low, lean”), German minder (“less”), Icelandic minna (“less”), Latin minus (“less”).

Alternative forms

• myn, minne, mynne

Adjective

min

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Less; smaller; lower.
   • Le Bone Florence (late 1300s)

     The more and the minne

Derived terms

• minnock

Etymology 3

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory”); and also from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”).

Noun

min (plural mins)

1. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.

Etymology 4

From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above.

Verb

min (third-person singular simple present mins, present participle minning, simple past and past participle minned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to bring to the mind of; remind
2. (transitive, obsolete) to remember
3. (transitive, obsolete) to mention

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

• min.

Noun

min (plural mins)

1. Abbreviation of minimum.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of minimum.

   Antonym: max

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• INM, NMI, nim

Arigidi

Pronoun

min

1. me, first person singular pronoun, as object

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• minu

Etymology

From Latin minō, collateral form of minor. Compare Romanian mâna, mân.

Verb

min (third-person singular present indicative minã, past participle minatã)

1. to move

Related terms

Asturian

Pronoun

min

1. me (as the object of a preposition)

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, “thousand”), Turkish bin (“thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [min]

Numeral

min

1. thousand

Declension

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/ [mĩn]
• Rhymes: -in
• Hyphenation: min

Etymology 1

From Proto-Basque *biN.

Adjective

min (comparative minago, superlative minen, excessive minegi)

1. spicy, hot, bitter
2. painful
3. intimate
4. (chiefly Northern) strong, intense

Declension

Noun

min inan

1. pain
2. suffering
3. nostalgia, longing
4. desire, wish

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Basque *bini.

Noun

min inan

1. (Biscayan) Alternative form of mihi (“tongue”)

References

Further reading

• “min”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “min”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English minus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːi̯⁵⁵/, /maːi̯n⁵⁵/

Suffix

min

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, school slang, university slang) minus (in an academic grade)

   A min ― A-

Cornish

Alternative forms

• mìn, mynn

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɪn]

Noun

min f (singulative minen)

1. kids (young goats)

Crimean Tatar

Noun

min (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. defect, fault

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my”), genitive of *ek (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/, [miːˀn]

Adjective

min

1. abbreviation of minimal

   Alternative form: min.

Noun

min

1. abbreviation of minut
2. abbreviation of minimum

   Alternative form: min.

Pronoun

min (neuter mit, plural mine)

1. mine 1.st person singular possessive pronoun
2. my 1.st person singular possessive adjective

See also

Domari

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْ (min).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

Preposition

min

1. from

References

• Matras, Yaron (2012) A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎^[2], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/
• Hyphenation: min
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.

Preposition

min

1. minus

   Synonym: minus

   Antonym: plus

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: men

Adjective

min

1. (obsolete) comparative degree of weinig; less, fewer

Derived terms

Adjective

min (comparative minder, superlative minst)

1. few, little, less common synonym of weinig.
2. opprobrious, unpleasant

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch min, minne, from Old Dutch minna, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Old Frisian minne, Old Saxon minnia, Old High German minna (German Minne).

Noun

min f (uncountable)

1. (poetic) love

   Synonym: liefde

Usage notes

• The alternative form minne is used as a deliberate archaism in poetic and historical contexts (as in hoofse minne, which is far more common than hoofse min).

Alternative forms

• minne

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch minne, from minnemoeder.

Noun

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)

1. wetnurse
2. maid, especially a nursemaid

Related terms

Descendants

• Negerhollands: minnetje (from the diminutive)
• → Papiamentu: menchi, minnetsje, míntsje (from the diminutive)

Etymology 4

A contraction of mannin (“woman”).

Noun

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)

1. woman

Derived terms

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

min

1. inflection of minnen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse með, with a change from ð > n.

Preposition

min

1. with

Esperanto

Etymology

Esperanto first person singular pronoun mi + accusative/objective case ending -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/
• Rhymes: -in
• Hyphenation: min

Pronoun

min

1. accusative of mi

   Li batis min! ― He hit me!

2. myself

   Mi vidas min. ― I see myself.

See also

Finnish

Noun

min

1. abbreviation of minuutti

Anagrams

• nim

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• mio, mino

Etymology

Inherited from Latin meum. Doublet of mon (possessive determiner).

Pronoun

min (feminine singular mina, masculine plural mins, feminine plural mines) (ORB, broad)

1. mine (first-person singular possessor)

See also

References

• mien in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• min in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Fula

Etymology 1

Pronoun

min

1. 1st person singular emphatic pronoun I, me

Usage notes

• Used in Pular.

Dialectal variants

• miin (Pulaar, Fouta-toro, Adamawa, Liptaako, Maasina)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

min

1. (Adamawa) first person plural exclusive;short form we, us

Usage notes

• Used in Adamawa Fulfulde.
• Used in Maasina Fulfulde.
• Used in Western Niger Fulfulde.
• Used in Pulaar.

See also

• enen
• en
• meɗen
• hiɗen

Dialectal variants

• men (Pular)

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993) “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies‎^[3], volume 35, →DOI, pages 215-230

Galician

Pronoun

min

1. oblique of eu

Guayabero

Noun

min

1. water

References

• Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary (1992), page 48; also ASJP (min); contrast Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 149, which has minta

Hungarian

Etymology

mi (“what”) +‎ -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmin]

Pronoun

min

1. superessive singular of mi

   Min dolgozol? ― What are you working on?

See also

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Adverb

min

1. less

   Antonym: plu

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmin/ [ˈmin]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: min

Etymology 1

borrowed from Dutch min, from Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.

Adjective

min (comparative lebih min, superlative paling min)

1. apocopic form of minus

Etymology 2

borrowed from Dutch munt, from Middle Dutch mente, minte, from Latin mentha.

Noun

min (plural min-min)

1. mint (any plant in the family Lamiaceae)
2. mint (the flavouring of the plant)
3. mint (a green colour, like that of mint)

4. mint (mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath)

References

Further reading

• “min” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi-. Compare Finnish mitä ... sen.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmin/, [ˈmin]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmin/, [ˈmin]
• Rhymes: -in
• Hyphenation: min

Adverb

min

1. (+ sen) Establishes a correlation between multiple comparatives in a sentence; the ...

   Min enemmän siä sööt, sen suuremp siä oot. ― The more you eat, the bigger you are.

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 310

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲinʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɨnʲ/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish min, from Old Irish men (“flour”), from Proto-Celtic *menā.

Noun

min f (genitive singular mine)

1. meal
2. powdered matter

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

min

1. inflection of mion:
   1. vocative/genitive masculine singular
   2. (archaic) dative feminine singular

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “min”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “min”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “min”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Japanese

Romanization

min

1. Rōmaji transcription of みん

Kwanka

Noun

min

1. water

Further reading

• Roger Blench, The Kwaŋ Language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2007), page 4

Latvian

Verb

min

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of minēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of minēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of minēt

Verb

min

1. inflection of mīt:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of mīt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of mīt

Livonian

Pronoun

min

1. genitive/dative singular of minā

Low German

Alternative forms

• mien, myn, miin, mihn
• meyn, mäin (Westphalian: Sauerländisch)
• muin (Westphalian: Ravensbergisch, in Soest)
• müin, muin (Westphalian: Lippisch)
• moin (Eastphalian)
• m^äin (Eastphalian)

Etymology

From Middle Low German min (myn).

Pronoun

min

1. my (mine)

Declension

See also

• ik/ick
• din, sin

Maia

Noun

min

1. comb

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مَن (man), dialectal Arabic مِين (mīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Pronoun

min

1. (interrogative) who

Derived terms

Mandarin

Romanization

min

1. nonstandard spelling of mín
2. nonstandard spelling of mǐn

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Cantonese 麵 / 面 (min⁶).

Noun

min

1. noodle

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch min, from Proto-Germanic *minniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

Pronoun

min

1. less

   Antonym: mêe

Alternative forms

• minre, minder

Adverb

min

1. less, to a smaller degree

   Antonym: mêe

Alternative forms

• minre, minder

Further reading

• “min (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “min (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “min (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mine, minne, myn, myne, mynne, mein, meyne

Etymology

From Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Determiner

min (nominative I)

1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my

Usage notes

min is usually used before a vowel and h-, while mi is usually used before a consonant other than h-, much as with Modern English an/a.

Descendants

• English: mine (determiner)
• Scots: mine (determiner)

Pronoun

min (nominative I)

1. First-person singular possessive pronoun: mine, of me

Descendants

• English: mine (pronoun)
• Scots: mine (pronoun)

See also

References

• “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mîn

1. my, mine

Descendants

• Alemannic German: miin, myn
• Bavarian: mei

  Cimbrian: main, moi (Luserna)

• Hunsrik: mein
• Luxembourgish: mäin
• German: mein
• Vilamovian: maj
• Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

North Frisian

Determiner

min

1. (Sylt) my (first-person singular possessive determiner)
2. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of man (“my”)

Pronoun

min (plural (Sylt) minen)

1. (Sylt) mine (first-person singular possessive pronoun)
2. (Föhr-Amrum) feminine/neuter of man (“mine”)
3. (Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of man (“mine”)

See also

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɪn]

Pronoun

min

1. I
2. me
3. my, mine

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːn/

Pronoun

mīn

1. accusative/genitive of mii (“we”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse minn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/, /mɪn/

Determiner

min m (feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)

1. my, mine

See also

References

• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• https://naob.no/ordbok/min_3

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse minn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz. Akin to English mine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnː/

Determiner

min (masculine min, feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)

1. my, mine

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Verb

min

1. imperative of mina

References

• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Determiner

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: mijn
  • Dutch: mijn
  • Limburgish: mien

Further reading

• “mīn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Determiner

mīn

1. my

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: min
  • English: my, mine (pronoun)
  • Scots: mine (pronoun)

Pronoun

mīn

1. genitive of iċ: mine, of me

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *minniz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *min- (“small”). Akin to Old High German minniro (“smaller”) (German minder), Old Norse minni (“smaller”) (Icelandic minni, minnr), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌶𐌰 (minniza, “younger”), 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “young”), Latin minor (“smaller”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Adjective

min

1. small

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: min
  • Scots: min, myn
  • English: min

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Cognate with Old English mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

Determiner

mīn

1. my

Declension

Descendants

• North Frisian: man
• Saterland Frisian: min, mien
• West Frisian: myn

Pronoun

mīn

1. genitive of ik: mine, of me

Declension

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Pronoun

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle High German: mīn
  • Alemannic German: miin, myn
  • Bavarian: mei

    Cimbrian: main, moi (Luserna)

  • Hunsrik: mein
  • Luxembourgish: mäin
  • German: mein
  • Vilamovian: maj
  • Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

min

1. less

References

• Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *menus, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”).

Pronunciation

• (masculine nominative/accusative/dative singular, feminine nominative/vocative singular, neuter nominative/vocative/accusative/dative singular, all genders genitive plural) IPA^(key): [mʲin]
• (masculine vocative/genitive singular, feminine accusative/dative singular, neuter genitive singular, masculine nominative plural) IPA^(key): [mʲinʲ]

Adjective

min (comparative miniu)

1. minute, small

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: mion
• Scottish Gaelic: mion

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲinʲ]

Noun

min

1. dative/accusative singular of men

Mutation

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

Determiner

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: mīn
  • German Low German: mien

See also

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Pronoun

mīn

1. my

Declension

Picard

Pronoun

min m

1. my

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmin/
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: min

Noun

min f

1. genitive plural of mina

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: min

Noun

min m (invariable)

1. abbreviation of minuto
   1. Used to indicate time in relation to an hour on a 24-hour clock.

      O evento é hoje, às 20h30min ― The event is today at 8:30 p.m.

   2. Used to indicate any sequence of time in minutes.

      O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s ― The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

Usage notes

• This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour).
• This abbreviation is often preceded by a number followed by h, used to represent hours.
• The abbreviation can be followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
  • Example: 20h43min08s

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Cognates include West Frisian myn and German mein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪn/

Determiner

min (feminine mien, neuter mien, plural mien, predicative minnen)

1. my, mine

See also

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “min”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish men (“flour”), from Proto-Celtic *menā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“to trample, tread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Noun

min f (genitive singular mine, plural minean)

1. flour

   Synonym: flùr

Usage notes

• Usually used in compounds.

Derived terms

• min-choirce

Mutation

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “min”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[5], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From Cantonese 麵 / 面 (min⁶).

Noun

min

1. noodle

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Sumerian

Romanization

min

1. Romanization of 𒈫 (min)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

From minut.

Noun

min

1. min; minute

Etymology 2

From minimum.

Noun

min

1. min; minimum

Etymology 3

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Pronoun

min c (neuter singular mitt, plural mina)

1. my
2. mine

Declension

Etymology 4

Borrowed from German Miene.

Noun

min c

1. a facial expression

   Synonym: ansiktsuttryck

Declension

Derived terms

• hålla god min
• minspel

See also

• uppsyn

References

• min in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• min in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• min in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• nim+

Tatar

Pronoun

min

1. I

Unami

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *mi·na (“berry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Noun

min inan (plural mina)

1. berry, huckleberry, currant; seed

Derived terms

• minhe
• minuu

References

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “min”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [min˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [min˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɨn˧˧]

Etymology 1

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Pronoun

min • (綿, 㒙)

1. (archaic, literary) I; me

Etymology 2

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Noun

(classifier con) min

1. (dialectal) gaur

Welsh

Etymology

According to Stokes, from Proto-Celtic *maknā, *meknos, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”), see also English maw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/

Noun

min m (plural minion)

1. point, sharp edge

   Synonyms: ymyl, awch

2. edge, border, brim

   Synonyms: ymyl, ochr, byl

3. lip

   Synonym: gwefus

Derived terms

• minio (“to sharpen, to whet”)
• miniog (“sharp, keen”)
• minlliw (“lipstick”)

Mutation

References