Mian

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mian"

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Etymology 1

Proper noun

Mian

  1. A language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Etymology 2

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Mian County

From Mandarin 勉 (Miǎn).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mian

  1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
    • 1987, The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:
      In 1978 the Administrative Office for Cultural Relics of Mian County, Shaanxi, conducted excavations of four tombs found in the course of agricultural improvements.
    • 1990, Candace J. Lewis, “Han dynasty”, in Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection‎, Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar College Art Gallery, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:
      Large numbers of pottery dogs have been excavated from tombs all over China.² For example, a pottery dog was excavated from an Eastern Han tomb at Laodaosi, Mian county, Shaanxi.³
      3. Guo Qinghua, Kaogu, 1985, no. 12, pl. 4:8.
    • 1992, Li Kangmin, “Rice-Fish Farming Systems in China: Past, Present and Future”, in Rice-Fish Research and Development in Asia‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:
      The unearthed cultural relics of Mian County not only indicate that rice-fish culture in China dates further back in the historical record, but also fills an important gap in kind in the history of rice-fish culture in China. Mian County is located in the Hanzhong basin south of Qinlin mountain, near the border of Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mian.
Translations

Anagrams

Manx

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mian m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Matthew
  2. Matthew the Evangelist, one of the twelve disciples.

Mutation

Mutation of Mian
radical lenition eclipsis
Mian Vian unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 71
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