min

See also mīn, mín, mǐn, mìn, -min, MIN, Mǐn, Mín, and מין

Translingual

Symbol

min

1. (mathematics) minimum function

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English

Etymology 1

From minute.

Abbreviation

min

1. Alternative form of min..

   "Dinner's ready, darling!" "Be there in a min!"

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English min (“less", also "small, mean, evil, vile, harmful”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min (“less, lesser”), West Frisian min (“small, bad”), Dutch min (“less, small”), Low German minn (“small, low, lean”), German minder (“less”), Icelandic minna (“less”), Latin minus (“less”).

Alternative forms

• myn, minne, mynne

Adjective

min (comparative more min, superlative most min)

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Less.
   • (Can we date this quote?)Le Bone Florence

     The more and the minne

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþiją (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”). More at mine.

Noun

min (plural mins)

1. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.

   ... and faith I've done that same and found me min; ... — Joshiah Gilbet Holland, "Sevenoaks", 1875

Etymology 4

From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above.

Verb

min (third-person singular simple present mins, present participle minning, simple past and past participle minned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bring to the mind of; remind.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To remember.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To mention.

Etymology 5

Abbreviation of minimum.

Noun

min (plural mins)

1. minimum.

   "He's gotta be at least 60, min!"

Antonyms

• max

Anagrams

• nim
• NMI

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Asturian

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Pronoun

min

1. me (as the object of a preposition)

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Basque

Noun

min

1. pain

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• mìn
• mynn

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mɪn]

Noun

min f (singulative minen)

1. kids (young goats)

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

min

1. defect, fault

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Danish

Abbreviation

min or min.

1. abbreviation of minimal
2. abbreviation of minimum
3. abbreviation of minut

Etymology

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːn/, [miːˀn]

Pronoun

min (neuter mit, plural mine)

1. mine (1.st person singular possessive pronoun)
2. my (1.st person singular possessive adjective)

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Inflection	Nominative	Accusative	Possessive	Reflexive	Reflexive possessive
Singular	First	common	jeg	mig	min
		neuter			mit
		plural			mine
	Second	common	du	dig	din
		neuter			dit
		plural			dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine	han	ham	hans	sig	sin
		feminine	hun	hende	hendes
		common	den	den	dens
		neuter	det	det	dets		sit
		plural					sine
Plural	First	—	vi	os	vores
		common			vor
		neuter			vort
		plural			vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres	sig

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje)

1. maid, especially a nursemaid

Preposition

min

1. minus

Verb

min

1. first-person singular present indicative of minnen
2. imperative of minnen

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Elfdalian

Etymology

Preposition

min

1. with

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Esperanto

Etymology

Esperanto first person singular pronoun mi + accusative/objective case ending -n

Pronoun

min

1. accusative of mi

   Li batis min!

   He hit me!

2. myself

   Mi vidas min.

   I see myself.

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Galician

Pronoun

'min oblique (nominative eu, dative me, accusative me)

1. me (singular first-person personal pronoun)

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• comigo
• eu
• me
• meu

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Ido

Adverb

min

1. less

Antonyms

• plu

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Irish

Etymology

Noun

min f (genitive mine)

1. meal
2. powdered matter

Declension

Declension of min

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative min Vocative a mhin Genitive mine Dative min

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an mhin Genitive na mine Dative leis an min don mhin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
min	mhin	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Kurdish

Pronoun

min

1. I
2. me
3. my, mine

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Lojban

Rafsi

min

1. rafsi of jmina.

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مَن (man), Dialectal Arabic مين (mīn)

Pronoun

min

1. who? (interrogative)

Derived terms

• ta' min

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Mandarin

Romanization

min

1. Nonstandard spelling of mīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǐn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mìn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch min, from Proto-Germanic *minniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪn/

Adverb

min (superlative minst)

1. less, to a smaller degree

Synonyms

• minre

Antonyms

• mee
• meer

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Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mîn

1. my
2. mine

Descendants

• German: mein

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse minn.

Pronoun

min m (feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)

1. my, mine

References

• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

	Nominative	Objective case	Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person	jeg	meg	min m
Second person	du	deg	din m
Third person m	han	han/ham	hans
Third person f	hun	henne	hennes
Third person n	det	det	dets
Third person, nonhuman m/f	den	den	dens
Plural
First person	vi	oss	vår m
Second person	dere	dere	deres
Third person	de	dem	deres

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse minn.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /min/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

min m (feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)

1. my, mine

References

• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk

	Nominative	Objective case	Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person	eg	meg	min m
Second person	du	deg	din m
Third person m	han	han, honom3	hans
Third person f	ho	ho, henne	hennar, hennes4
Third person n	det, dat1	det, dat1	dess 2
Plural
First person	me, vi	oss	vår m
Second person	de, dokker	dykk, dokker	dykkar, dokkar, deires4
Third person	dei	dei, deim3	deira
Notes
1Never part of official Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily used before Landsmål received an official written norm.
2Rare or literary
3No longer part of the official written norm. Now primarily used in Høgnorsk texts.
4No longer part of the official written norm. These non-traditional forms were added to the norm to either approach the the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects.

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: mijn
  • Dutch: mijn

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Old English

Etymology 1

Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *meinos, from *mei (locative form of *me- (“me”)) + *-no- (“adjectival suffix”). Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːn/

Pronoun

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Etymology 2

Proto-Germanic *min- (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *min- (“small”). Akin to Old High German minniro "smaller" (German minder), Old Norse minni "smaller" (Icelandic minni, minnr), Gothic minniza "younger", mins "young", Latin minor "smaller". More at minor

Adjective

min

1. small

Derived terms

• minlīc
• mindōm
• minsian

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːn/

Pronoun

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Descendants

• German: mein
• Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

mīn

1. my
2. mine

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronoun declensions

Personal pronouns
Singular	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	ik	thū	hē	sīu	it
Accusative	mī, mik	thī, thik	ina	sīa
Dative	mī	thī	imu	iru	it
Genitive	mīn	thīn	is	ira	is
Dual	1.	2.	-	-	-
Nominative	wit	git	-	-	-
Accusative	unk	ink	-	-	-
Dative
Genitive	unkaro	inka	-	-	-
Plural	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	wī	gī	sīa	sīa	sīu
Accusative	ūs	īu, gīu
Dative			im
Genitive	ūsar	īuwar, gīuwar	iro

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Picard

Pronoun

min m

1. my

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

min f (genitive mine, plural minean)

1. flour

Usage notes

• Usually used in compounds.

Synonyms

• flùr

Derived terms

• min-choirce

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːn/

Etymology 1

From minut.

Abbreviation

min

1. min; minute

Etymology 2

From minimum.

Abbreviation

min

1. min; minimum

Etymology 3

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Pronoun

min c (neuter mitt, plural mina)

1. my
2. mine

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

	subject	object	possessive
singular	full	full	common	neuter	plural
1st person	jag	mig	min	mitt	mina
2nd person	du	dig	din	ditt	dina
3rd person masculine	han	honom	hans
3rd person feminine	hon	henne	hennes
3rd person common	den	den	dess
3rd person neuter	det	det	dess
3rd person indefinite	man	en	ens
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina
plural
1st person	vi	oss	vår	vårt	våra
2nd person	ni	er	er	ert	era
3rd person	de	dem	deras
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina

Etymology 4

German Miene.

Noun

min c

1. facial expression

Declension

Declension of min

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	min	minen	miner	minerna
genitive	mins	minens	miners	minernas