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English
Pronoun
myne
- 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
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch (de/het) mijne.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
myne
- 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
Determiner
myne (subjective pronoun I)
- Alternative form of min
- 1380-1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Prologue to the Reves Tale", Canterbury Tales
Pronoun
myne (subjective I)
- Alternative form of min
Old English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“thought, feeling, emotion, desire”). Cognate with Old Norse munr, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns).
Noun
myne m
- mind; memory, remembrance
- feeling, affection, love, favor
- purpose, desire, wish
- memorial
Declension
Strong i-stem:
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow”).
Noun
myne m
- minnow
Declension
Strong i-stem:
Yola
Adjective
myne
- Alternative form of mhyne
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Myne saaughe.- Very comfortable.
References
- 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