mein

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Anus

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Noun

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mein

  1. bird

References

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  • George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German and Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Compare English my and mine.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maɪ̯n/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
  • Homophone: meinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

Determiner

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mein

  1. (possessive) my

Declension

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Declension of mein
masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative mein meine mein meine
genitive meines meiner meines meiner
dative meinem meiner meinem meinen
accusative meinen meine mein meine

When used as a possessive pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form meiner, which equals English "mine", and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form meines or meins.

  • dein Vater und meiner – your father and mine
  • dein Kind und mein(e)s – your child and mine

When the pronoun is placed after a noun, it is left uninflected:

  • Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein fahr ich von diesem Leben (song Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein) – Towards Heaven to my father go I from this life.

Pronoun

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mein

  1. (archaic) genitive of ich

Further reading

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  • mein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • mein” in Duden online

Anagrams

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Gothic

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Romanization

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mein

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽

Hunsrik

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Etymology

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From Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz. Cognate with German mein.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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mein

  1. my

Inflection

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1Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

Further reading

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą.

Noun

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mein n (genitive singular meins, nominative plural mein)

  1. disease, illness
  2. harm, damage

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English mīn.

Determiner

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mein (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of min

Pronoun

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mein (subjective I)

  1. Alternative form of min

Etymology 2

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Noun

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mein

  1. Alternative form of mayn

Nalca

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Noun

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mein

  1. mountain

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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mein n (definite singular meinet, indefinite plural mein, definite plural meina or meinene)

  1. alternative form of men

Verb

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mein

  1. imperative of meine

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą.

Noun

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mein n (definite singular meinet, indefinite plural mein, definite plural meina)

  1. harm
  2. obstacle
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse meinn, from Proto-Germanic *mainaz.

Adjective

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mein (neuter meint, definite singular and plural meine, comparative meinare, indefinite superlative meinast, definite superlative meinaste)

  1. cumbersome, mean
  2. precise, keen
    Synonym: visshøv
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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mein

  1. imperative of meine

References

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  • “mein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “mein”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
  • “mein” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Anagrams

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Old French

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Noun

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mein oblique singularf (oblique plural meinz, nominative singular mein, nominative plural meinz)

  1. Alternative form of main

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *mainą.

Noun

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mein n

  1. harm, mischief, crime, misdeed
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Icelandic: mein
  • Faroese: mein
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mein
    • Norwegian Bokmål: mein
  • Old Swedish: mēn
  • Danish: men
    • Norwegian Bokmål: men

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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mein

  1. strong feminine nominative singular of meinn
  2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of meinn

References

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  • mein”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press