mín

See also: Appendix:Variations of "min"

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mʊin]

Pronoun

mín

  1. me; genitive singular of eg (‘I’, the first person personal pronoun)

Declension

Faroese personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person eg, jeg meg, mjeg mær mín
2nd person tú teg, tjeg tær tín
3rd person m hann honum hansara, hans†
f hon hana henni hennara, hennar†
n tað tí tess
plural 1st person vit okkum okkara
2nd person tit tykkum tykkara
3rd person m teir teimum, teim† teirra
f tær
n tey

Pronoun

mín

  1. my, mine; the first person possessive pronoun

Declension

singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative mín mín mítt
accusative mína
dative mínum míni / mínari mínum
genitive (míns) (mínar) (míns)
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative mínir mínar míni
accusative mínar
dative mínum
genitive (mína)

Icelandic

Etymology 1

Pronoun

mín

  1. genitive singular of ég: (of) me
    Þú ætlar að ganga til mín.
    You are going to walk to me.
    Hver er stysta leiðin til að fara heim til mín?
    What is the shortest way to go home to me?
Declension
Icelandic personal pronouns
singular first person second person third person
masculine feminine neuter
nominative ég, eg, ek† þú hann hún, hon†, hón† það, þat†
accusative mig, mik† þig, þik† hann hana það, þat†
dative mér þér honum, hánum† henni því
genitive mín þín hans hennar þess
plural first person second person third person
masculine feminine neuter
nominative við þið, þit† þeir þær þau
accusative okkur ykkur þá þær þau
dative okkur ykkur þeim þeim þeim
genitive okkar ykkar þeirra þeirra þeirra

† Archaic. See also honorific pronouns.

Etymology 2

Determiner

mín

  1. inflection of minn (“my/mine”):
    1. nominative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative neuter plural
    Þetta er mín eign.
    This is my property.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mín (“smooth, level, calm; self-restrained, gentle, placid, courteous, docile, subdued, tame; digestible, palatable; soft”), from Proto-Celtic *mīnis (“soft, tender”), which is related to *mētos, from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʲiːnʲ/[1]

Adjective

mín (genitive singular masculine mín, genitive singular feminine míne, plural míne, comparative míne)

  1. smooth
  2. soft, dainty, tender
  3. fine (of a comb, sieve, etc.)

Declension

Declension of mín
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative mín mhín míne;
mhíne2
vocative mhín míne
genitive míne míne mín
dative mín;
mhín1 		mhín míne;
mhíne2
Comparative níos míne
Superlative is míne

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

  • abhras mín (“fine yarn”)
  • aiteann mín (“dwarf whin”)
  • bairneach mín (“blue-rayed limpit”)
  • chomh mín le síoda (“smooth as silk”)
  • cíor mhín (“fine-toothed comb”)
  • craiceann bog mín (“soft smooth skin”)
  • feochadán mín (“carline thistle”)
  • greabhán mín (“horsebane”)
  • leathóg mhín (“lemon sole”)
  • lus mín (“dill”)
  • meallach mín (“smooth and enticing”)
  • mín áilghean (“soft and mild”)
  • mín le do chneas (“soft next one's skin”)
  • mín marbh (“still and insensible”)
  • mín réidh (“smooth and even”)
  • mín síodúil (“smooth and silky”)
  • mínigh (“to smooth, polish; explain”)
  • mínscoth (“knapweed”)
  • míntír f (“mainland”)
  • olann mhín (“sheer wool”)
  • plána mín (“smoothing-plane”)
  • praiseach mhín (“orache”)
  • salann mín (“table salt”)
  • siúcra mín (“castor sugar”)
  • teanga mhín (“white dead-nettle”)
  • úir mhín (“fine soil, mould”)

Noun

mín f (genitive singular míne, nominative plural mínte)

  1. smooth, fine thing or part
  2. (geography) smooth, level land; tillable land; tract of grassland in mountain

Declension

Declension of mín (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mín mínte
vocative a mhín a mhínte
genitive míne mínte
dative mín mínte
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mhín na mínte
genitive na míne na mínte
dative leis an mín
don mhín 		leis na mínte

Mutation

Mutated forms of mín
radical lenition eclipsis
mín mhín not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67

Further reading

Mandarin

Alternative forms

  • min — nonstandard

Romanization

mín (min2, Zhuyin ㄇㄧㄣˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姄
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 岷
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 崏
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忞
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忟
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怋
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捪
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敯
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旻
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旼
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 暉 / 晖
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 民
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 珉
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琘
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瑉
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痻
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盿
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砇
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 碈
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緍 / 𦈏
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緡 / 缗
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 缗
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罠
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苠
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 賬 / 账
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈱 / 𲇸
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錉
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鍲
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閔 / 闵
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閺

Old Norse

Determiner

mín

  1. inflection of mínn:
    1. feminine nominative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative plural

Pronoun

mín

  1. genitive of ek
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