mine

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See also: Mine, miné, minè, minę, míně, and -mine

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: mīn, IPA(key): /maɪ̯n/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *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 forms[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mine

  1. That which belongs to me.
    1. Used predicatively.
      The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
    2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
      Mine has been a long journey.
    3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
      Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
    4. Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
      This house of mine is over 100 years old.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
See also[edit]
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
personal pronoun possessive
pronoun		 possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first person singular I
me (colloquial)		 me myself
me
mysen		 mine my
mine (before vowels, archaic)
me
plural we us ourselves
ourself
oursen		 ours our
second person singular standard, formal you you yourself
yoursen		 yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
archaic, informal thou thee thyself
theeself
thysen		 thine thy
thine (before vowels)
plural standard you
ye (archaic)		 you yourselves yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
colloquial you all
y'all
you guys		 you all
y'all
you guys		 y'allselves y'all's
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)		 y'all's
your all's (nonstandard)
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)
informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person singular masculine he him himself
hisself (archaic)
hissen		 his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)		 his
feminine she her herself
hersen		 hers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)		 her
neuter it
hit		 it
hit		 itself
hitself		 its
his (archaic)		 its
his (archaic)
hits
genderless they them themself, themselves theirs their
genderless, nonspecific
(formal) 		one one oneself – one's
plural they them
hem, 'em		 themselves
theirsen		 theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		 their

Determiner[edit]

mine

  1. My; belonging to me.
    1. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
    2. (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: / […]
      • 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,
        Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...
Usage notes[edit]
  • 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, and in the most formal of writing even into the 20th century.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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”).

Noun[edit]

mine (plural mines)

Entrance to a gold mine in Victoria, Australia
Cutaway view of an anti-tank landmine
  1. 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.
  2. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
    She's a mine of information.
    • 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:
      To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.
  3. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
  4. (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.
    • 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:
      Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
  5. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  6. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  7. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
    Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
  2. 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.
  3. (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.
  4. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
    the mining cony
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
  7. (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  8. (slang) To pick one's nose.
  10. (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
    Coordinate term: mint
    • 2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to pick one's nose — see pick one's nose
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Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from French mine.

Noun[edit]

mine (plural mines)

  1. Alternative form of mien

Anagrams[edit]

Aromanian[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mine

  1. Alternative form of mini

Crimean Gothic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun[edit]

mine

  1. moon
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Mine. Luna.

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine

  1. third-person singular future indicative of minout

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /miːnə/, [ˈmiːnə], [ˈmiːn̩]

Noun[edit]

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

  1. look, air, mien
  2. (military) mine
  3. pit

Inflection[edit]

Declension of mine
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mine minen miner minerne
genitive mines minens miners minernes

Pronoun[edit]

mine

  1. (possessive) plural of min

See also[edit]

Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
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

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

Noun[edit]

mine f (plural mines)

  1. mine (excavation or explosive)
  2. pencil lead
  3. (soccer) piledriver, scorcher
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *mēnis, in the sense of "red"),[1] or from Italian mina, from Latin miniō (“to redden”).[2]

Noun[edit]

mine f (plural mines)

  1. appearance, physical aspect; expression
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From miner.

Verb[edit]

mine

  1. inflection of miner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rea, J. & Rea, C. B. (1973): Circa instans, p. 401
  2. ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 727, mine1

Anagrams[edit]

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mine

  1. inflection of mion:
    1. genitive feminine singular
    2. comparative degree

Noun[edit]

mine f

  1. genitive singular of min

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
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.

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mine f

  1. plural of mina

Anagrams[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mine

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みね

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Old French mine.

Noun[edit]

mine f

  1. ore vein, mine
Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]
  • Dutch: mijn
  • Limburgish: mien

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner[edit]

mine

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

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Determiner[edit]

mine (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of min

Pronoun[edit]

mine (subjective I)

  1. Alternative form of min

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

mine f or m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

  1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms[edit]

Determiner[edit]

mine

  1. plural of min

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Noun[edit]

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

  1. a mine (excavation or explosive)
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mine/min)

  1. Alternative form of mina

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner[edit]

mine

  1. plural of min

References[edit]

Phuthi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun[edit]

miné

  1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine

  1. inflection of minar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited 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, Neapolitan mene.

Pronoun[edit]

mine (stressed accusative form of eu)

  1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") me
    mă iubești pe mine? ― Do you love me?
Related terms[edit]
  • mă (unstressed form)
See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

mine

  1. plural of mină

Scots[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mine

  1. mine

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Noun[edit]

mine f

  1. genitive singular of min

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
mine mhine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Sidamo[edit]

Mine (1).

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cushitic *min- (“house, to build”). Cognates include Oromo mana, Burji mina and Hadiyya mine.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmine/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Noun[edit]

mine m (plural minna f)

  1. house
  2. household

References[edit]

  • Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
  • Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “mine”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmine/ [ˈmi.ne]
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Syllabification: mi‧ne

Verb[edit]

mine

  1. inflection of minar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swazi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun[edit]

miné

  1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.
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