mien

See also: Mien, mień, miến, miền, miễn, and mīen

English

Etymology

From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophone: mean

Noun

mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)

1. (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
   • 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:

     Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.
2. (countable) A specific facial expression.

Translations

demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer

• Finnish: ilme (fi)
• French: mine (fr) f
• German: Miene (de) f
• Greek: ύφος (el) n (ýfos)
• Italian: cera (it), atteggiamento (it) m, postura (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mine (no) m

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• Occitan: mina (oc), postura, comportament
• Russian: ми́на (ru) f (mína), физионо́мия (ru) f (fizionómija), ^{(please verify)} выраже́ние лица́ n (vyražénije licá)
• Spanish: apostura
• Swedish: min (sv) c

specific facial expression

• Finnish: ilme (fi)
• French: mine (fr) f
• German: Miene (de) f
• Greek: ύφος (el) n (ýfos)
• Italian: mimica (it) f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mine (no) m

• Occitan: mina (oc), comportament
• Russian: ми́на (ru) f (mína), физионо́мия (ru) f (fizionómija)
• Swedish: min (sv)

Anagrams

• Emin, Mine, mine

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French

Etymology

From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjɛ̃/

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Adjective

mien (feminine mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)

1. (archaic) my

Derived terms

• le mien (“mine”)

See also

• mon, ma, mes

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mine, miné

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Old French

Etymology

Latin meum.

Adjective

mien

1. (stressed) my; mine

Usage notes

• chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context

  un mien fils

  my son

  enveierai le mien

  I will send mine

Descendants

• French: mien

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Pitcairn-Norfolk

Etymology

From English main.

Adjective

mien

1. main

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Plautdietsch

Pronoun

mien

1. my

See also

• dien (your, thy)
• sien (his)
• mie (me)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi̯ɛn/

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of mena

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of meno

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Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mien f

1. carrot

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gemēne, from Proto-West Germanic *gamainī, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moynis. Cognate with German gemein, English mean, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (gamains) and Latin commūnis.

Adjective

mien

1. common, communal
2. common, everyday
3. general

Inflection

Inflection of mien
uninflected	mien
inflected	miene
comparative	miender miener
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		mien	miender miener	it mienst it mienste
indefinite	c. sing.	miene	miendere mienere	mienste
	n. sing.	mien	miender miener	mienste
	plural	miene	miendere mienere	mienste
definite		miene	miendere mienere	mienste
partitive		miens	mienders mieners	—

Derived terms

• mienskip

Further reading

• “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011