mynd

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse mynd (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

mynd f (genitive singular myndar, plural myndir)

1. image, picture
2. imagination (created by words)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• myndugleiki

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse mynd (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

mynd f (genitive singular myndar, nominative plural myndir)

1. an image, a picture

   Þetta er afar falleg mynd sem þú málaðir.

   This is a very nice picture you've painted.

2. a form, an image
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

3. a movie, a film

   Eigum við að fara á einhverja mynd?

   Wanna go see a film?

Declension

Synonyms

• (film): kvikmynd, bíómynd

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from mund (“hand”), or alternatively from muna (“to remember”).

Noun

mynd f

1. shape, form
2. manner
3. image, figure

Inflection

Derived terms

• mynda
• myndasmiðr
• myndasmíði
• myndarligr

Descendants

• Icelandic: mynd
• Faroese: mynd
• Swedish: mynd

Welsh

Alternative forms

• myned (literary)

Etymology

Suppletive verb:

• Verbal noun from Middle Welsh mynet, from Proto-Brythonic *moned (compare Cornish mones, Breton mont, Gaulish moni (“come!”)), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *monītor (compare Middle Irish muinithir (“goes around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (compare Umbrian menes (“will come”), Lithuanian mìnti (“to trample, scutch”)).
• Indicative forms from Proto-Celtic *ageti (“to drive”) (compare Old Irish aigid), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (compare Latin agō).
• The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *ɸel- (“to approach, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (compare Latin pellō (“strike, drive”), Epic Greek πίλναμαι (pílnamai, “approach”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɨ̞nd/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɨ̞n/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɪnd/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞nd

Verb

mynd (first-person singular present af)

1. to go

   Mae hi'n mynd i Gaerdydd heno. ― She's going to Cardiff tonight.

   Aeth hi ddoe. ― She went yesterday.

   Awn ni edrych. ― We will go and look.

   Ait ti i'r ysgol ar droed. ― You used to go to school on foot.

   Mae'n angenrheidiol yr elwyf nawr. ― It is necessary that I go now.

   Na, rwy'n mynd ar y trên bach. ― No, I'm going on the little train.

2. (colloquial, with yn) to become

   Mae Sioned yn mynd yn grac. ― Sioned is getting cross.

   Mae'r peth 'ma wedi mynd yn wyrdd. ― This thing has gone green.

Conjugation

Mutation

References

Further reading

• King, Gareth (1993) Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 183, 188, 193–94, 226.
• Klingebiel, Kathryn (1994) 234 Welsh Verbs: Standard Literary Forms, Belmont, MA: Ford & Bailie, →ISBN, pages 195–96.
• Thorne, David A. (1993) A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar (Reference Grammars), Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, →ISBN, § 294, pages 281–85.
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