mixen
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English myxen, from Old English mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīgan, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (“to urinate”); akin to German Mist (“manure”).
Noun edit
mixen (plural mixens)
- A compost heap; a dunghill.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 36:
- [I]f we have fish at all / Let them be gold; and charge the gardeners now / To pick the faded creature from the pool, / And cast it on the mixen that it die.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mixen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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mixen
Inflection edit
| Inflection of mixen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | mixen | |||
| past singular | mixte | |||
| past participle | gemixt | |||
| infinitive | mixen | |||
| gerund | mixen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | mix | mixte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | mixt | mixte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | mixt | mixte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | mixt | mixte | ||
| 3rd person singular | mixt | mixte | ||
| plural | mixen | mixten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | mixe | mixte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | mixen | mixten | ||
| imperative sing. | mix | |||
| imperative plur.1 | mixt | |||
| participles | mixend | gemixt | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English mix, from Middle English mixen, partially inherited from Old English mixen, and partially from a backformation of Old French mixte, itself a borrowing from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mixen (weak, third-person singular present mixt, past tense mixte, past participle gemixt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, especially of drinks) to mix (cause two or more substances to become combined or united)
- Synonym: mischen
- (transitive, music) to mix (combine several tracks; produce a finished version)
- Synonym: mischen
Conjugation edit
| infinitive | mixen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | mixend | ||||
| past participle | gemixt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich mixe | wir mixen | i | ich mixe | wir mixen |
| du mixt | ihr mixt | du mixest | ihr mixet | ||
| er mixt | sie mixen | er mixe | sie mixen | ||
| preterite | ich mixte | wir mixten | ii | ich mixte1 | wir mixten1 |
| du mixtest | ihr mixtet | du mixtest1 | ihr mixtet1 | ||
| er mixte | sie mixten | er mixte1 | sie mixten1 | ||
| imperative | mix (du) mixe (du) |
mixt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.