myne

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English

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Pronoun

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myne

  1. Obsolete spelling of mine.
    • 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
      ...leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance, which I haue truly found to me and myne, and therfore do duely and dayly pray for you and yours...

Anagrams

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Etymology

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From Dutch (de/het) mijne.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈməinə/
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Pronoun

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myne

  1. mine (that or those of me)
    Daardie is jou hemp en hierdie is myne.
    That is your shirt and this one is mine.

Middle English

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Determiner

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myne (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of min
    • 1380-1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Prologue to the Reves Tale", Canterbury Tales
      Myn herte is also mowled as myne heris
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Pronoun

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myne (subjective I)

  1. Alternative form of min

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (thought, feeling, emotion, desire). Cognate with Old Norse munr, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns).

Noun

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myne m

  1. mind; memory, remembrance
  2. feeling, affection, love, favor
  3. purpose, desire, wish
  4. memorial
Declension
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Derived terms
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  • Middle English: mine, mune, mynne

Etymology 2

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From Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (minnow).

Alternative forms

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Noun

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myne m

  1. minnow
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Adjective

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myne

  1. Alternative form of mhyne
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Myne saaughe.
      Very comfortable.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 66