mian

See also: Mian, mián, mían, miàn, miǎn, and Appendix:Variations of "mian"

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

mian

1. accusative singular of mia: my, mine

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲiənˠ]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish mían (“desire, wish”).

Noun

mian f (genitive singular méine, nominative plural mianta)

1. desire, wish

Derived terms

• ainmhian (“passion, lust”)
• is mian le (“to want”)

 

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mían (“mineral, ore”).

Noun

mian f (genitive singular méine, nominative plural mianta)

1. ore

Derived terms

• mianach (“vein of ore, mine”)
• mianadóir (“miner”)
• mianadóireacht (“act of mining”)

 

Declension

Declension of mian

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative mian mianta Vocative a mhian a mhianta Genitive méine mianta Dative mian méin (archaic, dialectal) mianta

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an mhian na mianta Genitive na méine na mianta Dative leis an mian leis an méin (archaic, dialectal) don mhian don mhéin (archaic, dialectal) leis na mianta

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mian	mhian	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mian”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mían (‘desire’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mían (‘mineral’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Mandarin

Romanization

mian

1. Nonstandard spelling of mián.
2. Nonstandard spelling of miǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of miàn.

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.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjan/

Noun

mian n

1. genitive plural of miano