mín

See also: Appendix:Variations of "min"

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʊin]

Pronoun

mín

1. me; genitive singular of eg (‘I’, the first person personal pronoun)

Declension

Faroese personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		eg, jeg	meg, mjeg	mær	mín
	2nd person		tú	teg, tjeg	tær	tín
	3rd person	m	hann		honum	hansara, hans†
		f	hon	hana	henni	hennara, hennar†
		n	tað		tí	tess
plural	1st person		vit	okkum		okkara
	2nd person		tit	tykkum		tykkara
	3rd person	m	teir		teimum, teim†	teirra
		f	tær
		n	tey

Pronoun

mín

1. my, mine; the first person possessive pronoun

Declension

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mín	mín	mítt
accusative		mína
dative	mínum	míni / mínari	mínum
genitive	(míns)	(mínar)	(míns)
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mínir	mínar	míni
accusative	mínar
dative	mínum
genitive	(mína)

Icelandic

Etymology 1

Pronoun

mín

1. genitive singular of ég: (of) me

   Þú ætlar að ganga til mín.

   You are going to walk to me.

   Hver er stysta leiðin til að fara heim til mín?

   What is the shortest way to go home to me?

Declension

  Icelandic personal pronouns

Icelandic personal pronouns
singular	first person	second person	third person masculine	third person feminine	third person neuter
nominative	ég, eg, ek†	þú	hann	hún, hon†, hón†	það, þat†
accusative	mig, mik†	þig, þik†	hann	hana	það, þat†
dative	mér	þér	honum, hánum†	henni	því
genitive	mín	þín	hans	hennar	þess
plural	first person	second person	third person masculine	third person feminine	third person neuter
nominative	við	þið, þit†	þeir	þær	þau
accusative	okkur	ykkur	þá	þær	þau
dative	okkur	ykkur	þeim	þeim	þeim
genitive	okkar	ykkar	þeirra	þeirra	þeirra

Etymology 2

Determiner

mín

1. inflection of minn (“my/mine”):
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

   Þetta er mín eign.

   This is my property.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mín (“smooth, level, calm; self-restrained, gentle, placid, courteous, docile, subdued, tame; digestible, palatable; soft”), from Proto-Celtic *mīnis (“soft, tender”), which is related to *mētos, from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲiːnʲ/

Adjective

mín (genitive singular masculine mín, genitive singular feminine míne, plural míne, comparative míne)

1. smooth
2. soft, dainty, tender
3. fine (of a comb, sieve, etc.)

Declension

Declension of mín

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	mín	mhín	míne; mhíne2
vocative	mhín		míne
genitive		míne	míne	mín
dative	mín; mhín1	mhín	míne; mhíne2
Comparative	níos míne
Superlative	is míne

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• abhras mín (“fine yarn”)
• aiteann mín (“dwarf whin”)
• bairneach mín (“blue-rayed limpit”)
• chomh mín le síoda (“smooth as silk”)
• cíor mhín (“fine-toothed comb”)
• craiceann bog mín (“soft smooth skin”)
• feochadán mín (“carline thistle”)
• greabhán mín (“horsebane”)
• leathóg mhín (“lemon sole”)
• lus mín (“dill”)
• meallach mín (“smooth and enticing”)
• mín áilghean (“soft and mild”)
• mín le do chneas (“soft next one's skin”)
• mín marbh (“still and insensible”)
• mín réidh (“smooth and even”)
• mín síodúil (“smooth and silky”)
• mínigh (“to smooth, polish; explain”)
• mínscoth (“knapweed”)
• míntír f (“mainland”)
• olann mhín (“sheer wool”)
• plána mín (“smoothing-plane”)
• praiseach mhín (“orache”)
• salann mín (“table salt”)
• siúcra mín (“castor sugar”)
• teanga mhín (“white dead-nettle”)
• úir mhín (“fine soil, mould”)

Noun

mín f (genitive singular míne, nominative plural mínte)

1. smooth, fine thing or part
2. (geography) smooth, level land; tillable land; tract of grassland in mountain

Declension

Declension of mín (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative mín mínte vocative a mhín a mhínte genitive míne mínte dative mín mínte forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an mhín na mínte genitive na míne na mínte dative leis an mín don mhín leis na mínte

Mutation

Mutated forms of mín

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mín	mhín	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• min — nonstandard

Romanization

mín (min², Zhuyin ㄇㄧㄣˊ)

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4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忞
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忟
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怋
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捪
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敯
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旻
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旼
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 暉 / 晖
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 民
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 珉
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琘
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瑉
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痻
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盿
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砇
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 碈
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緍 / 𦈏
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緡 / 缗
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 缗
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罠
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苠
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 賬 / 账
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈱 / 𲇸
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錉
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鍲
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閔 / 闵
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閺

Old Norse

Determiner

mín

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

Pronoun

mín

1. genitive of ek