mine
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.
Alternative formsEdit
- myne (obsolete)
PronounEdit
mine
- My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
- Used predicatively.
- The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Mine has been a long journey.
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
- Used predicatively.
TranslationsEdit
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DeterminerEdit
mine
- My; belonging to me.
- (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1:
- […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1:
- (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
- 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume IX, Number LII, page 10,
- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]
- 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume IX, Number LII, page 10,
- (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
Usage notesEdit
- My and mine are essentially two forms of the same word, with my being used attributively before the noun, and mine being used in all other cases, as may be seen in most of the usage examples and quotations above. In this respect, this word is analogous to most of the other possessive pronouns (e.g. your vs. yours), as well as a number of other noun modifiers, such as lone/alone.
- Historically, my came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, mine still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above.
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).
NounEdit
mine (plural mines)
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
- He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
- Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
- (figuratively) Any source of wealth or resources.
- She's a mine of information.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
- The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
Derived termsEdit
- anti-personnel mine
- anti-tank mine
- coal mine
- drift mine
- gold mine, goldmine
- land mine, landmine
- leaf miner
- limpet mine
- magnetic mine
- minefield
- minelayer
- mine of information
- miner
- mineral
- mine run
- mine shaft, mineshaft
- minesweeper
- mineworker
- naval mine
- open-pit mine
- proximity mine
- proxy mine
- salt mine
- strip-mine, strip mine
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
- Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- 1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
- Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.
- 1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- the mining cony
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
- They mined the walls.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:
- Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
- (by extension, figuratively) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
mine (plural mines)
- Alternative form of mien
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
PronounEdit
mine
- Alternative form of mini
Crimean GothicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.
NounEdit
mine
- moon
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Mine. Luna.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mine
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)
InflectionEdit
PronounEdit
mine
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
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common | neuter | plural | |||||
Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
reflexive | – | sig |
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).
NounEdit
mine f (plural mines)
- mine (excavation or explosive)
- pencil lead
- (soccer) piledriver, scorcher
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *mēnis, in the sense of "red")[1], or from Italian mina, from Latin minio (“to redden”).[2]
NounEdit
mine f (plural mines)
- appearance, physical aspect; expression
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From miner
VerbEdit
mine
- inflection of miner:
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “mine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ReferencesEdit
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mine
- inflection of mion:
NounEdit
mine f
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mine | mhine | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
mine f
AnagramsEdit
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
mine
Middle DutchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Old French mine.
NounEdit
mine f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
DeterminerEdit
mine
- inflection of mijn:
Further readingEdit
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mine (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle EnglishEdit
DeterminerEdit
mine (subjective pronoun I)
- Alternative form of min
PronounEdit
mine (subjective I)
- Alternative form of min
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mine f or m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)
- a mine (excavation or explosive)
Derived termsEdit
DeterminerEdit
mine
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine
NounEdit
mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)
- a mine (excavation or explosive)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative min)
- Alternative form of mina
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
DeterminerEdit
mine
ReferencesEdit
PhuthiEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Nguni *miná.
PronounEdit
miné
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
mine
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minar
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin mē, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *mēne, or through analogy with cine, from *quene, from quem. It also possibly acquired this ending through adopting the common Latin accusative inflection -inem. Compare tine, sine. Compare also Aromanian mini, Dalmatian main.
PronounEdit
mine (stressed accusative form of eu)
- (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") me
Related termsEdit
- mă (unstressed form)
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
mine
ScotsEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
mine
Scottish GaelicEdit
NounEdit
mine f
MutationEdit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
mine | mhine |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
SidamoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Cushitic *min- (“house, to build”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mine
ReferencesEdit
- Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mine
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of minar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of minar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of minar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of minar.
SwaziEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Nguni *miná.
PronounEdit
miné
WestrobothnianEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
mine n sg