mine

mine

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mīn, IPA(key): /maɪ̯n/
  • (Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.

Alternative forms

  • myne (obsolete)

Pronoun

mine (plural mine)

  1. That or those belonging to me.
    1. Used predicatively.
    2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
    3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
    4. (informal) My house or home.
    5. As double possessive.
Derived terms
Translations
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Determiner

mine

  1. (archaic) My; belonging to me.
    1. Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
    2. Used attributively before a vowel.
      • 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,
        Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...
Usage notes
  • My and mine are essentially two forms of the same word, with my being used attributively before the noun, and mine being used in all other cases, as may be seen in most of the usage examples and quotations above. In this respect, this word is analogous to most of the other possessive pronouns (e.g. your vs. yours), as well as a number of other noun modifiers, such as lone/alone.
  • Historically, my came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, mine still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above, and in the most formal of writing even into the 20th century.
Derived terms
  • mine host

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Noun

mine (plural mines)

  2. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
    Hyponyms: coal mine, coalmine; drift mine; gold mine, goldmine; open-pit mine; salt mine; strip-mine, strip mine; iron mine; powder mine; silver mine, silvermine; tin mine; urban mine
    Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
    This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
    He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
    Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
  4. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
    She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
  6. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
  8. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
    Hyponyms: Bangalore mine; bounding mine; butterfly mine; land mine, landmine; limpet mine; magnetic mine; naval mine; proximity mine; proxy mine
    Holonym: minefield
    His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
    The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
  10. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  12. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  14. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

  1. (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
    Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
  3. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
    We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
  4. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
    the mining cony
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
  7. (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
  9. (slang) To pick one's nose.
  11. (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
    Coordinate term: mint
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mine.

Noun

mine (plural mines)

  1. Alternative form of mien.

Anagrams

  • Emin, Mien, mien

Aromanian

Pronoun

mine

  1. alternative form of mini

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun

mine

  1. moon
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Mine. Luna.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪnɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪnɛ
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Verb

mine

  1. third-person singular future indicative of minout

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːnə/, [ˈmiːnə], [ˈmiːn̩]

Noun

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

  1. look, air, mien
  2. (military) mine
  3. pit

Inflection

Pronoun

mine

  1. (possessive) plural of min

See also

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /min/
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Homophones: minent, mines

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Noun

mine f (plural mines)

  1. mine (excavation or explosive)
  2. pencil lead
  3. (soccer) piledriver, scorcher
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Persian: مین (min)
  • → Vietnamese: mìn

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *meinis, in the sense of "red"), or from Italian mina, from Latin miniō (“to redden”).

Noun

mine f (plural mines)

  1. appearance, physical aspect; expression
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From miner.

Verb

mine

  1. inflection of miner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “mine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

References

Anagrams

  • mien

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲɪnʲə/

Adjective

mine

  1. inflection of mion:
    1. genitive feminine singular
    2. comparative degree

Noun

mine f

  1. genitive singular of min

Mutation

Italian

Noun

mine f

  1. plural of mina

Anagrams

  • meni

Japanese

Romanization

mine

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みね

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French mine.

Noun

mine f

  1. ore vein, mine
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Dutch: mijn
  • Limburgish: mien

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

mine

  1. inflection of mijn:
    1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Further reading

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

Middle English

Determiner

mine (subjective pronoun I)

  1. alternative form of min

Pronoun

mine (subjective I)

  1. alternative form of min

Mokilese

Verb

mine

  1. to exist

Antonyms

  • joh

References

  • Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977
  • Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Pronunciation

Noun

mine f or m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

  1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms

Determiner

mine

  1. plural of min

References

  • “mine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²miːnə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Noun

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

  1. a mine (excavation or explosive)
Derived terms
  • minefelt

Etymology 2

Verb

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mine/min)

  1. alternative form of mina

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

mine

  1. plural of min

References

  • “mine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiː.ne/

Determiner

mīne

  1. inflection of mīn:
    1. accusative feminine singular
    2. instrumental masculine/neuter singular
    3. nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun

miné

  1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Portuguese

Verb

mine

  1. inflection of minar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mē, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *mēne, or through analogy with cine, from *quene, from quem. It also possibly acquired this ending through adopting the common Latin accusative inflection -inem. Compare tine, sine. Compare also Aromanian mini, Dalmatian main, Neapolitan mene.

Pronoun

mine (stressed accusative form of eu)

  1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as pe, cu, la pentru) me
    Mă iubești pe mine? ― Do you love me?
Related terms
  • mă (unstressed form)
See also
  • tine
  • sine

Etymology 2

Noun

mine

  1. inflection of mină (“mine”):
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məin/

Determiner

mine

  1. my (used before a vowel and h-)
    Synonym: my

Pronoun

mine

  1. mine

See also

References

  • “mine, poss. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
  • “mine, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mine f

  1. genitive singular of min

Mutation

Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *min- (“house, to build”). Cognates include Oromo mana, Burji mina and Hadiyya mine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmine/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Noun

mine m (plural minna f)

  1. house
  2. household

References

  • Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
  • Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “mine”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmine/ [ˈmi.ne]
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Syllabification: mi‧ne

Verb

mine

  1. inflection of minar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun

miné

  1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

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