meinn

See also: mèinn

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish men, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /menʲ/

Noun

meinn f (genitive singular meinney)

1. meal, ground grains

Mutation

Mutation of meinn

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meinn	veinn	unchanged

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

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mainaz.

Adjective

meinn

1. painful
2. causing pain

Declension

Strong declension of meinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	meinn	mein	meint
accusative	meinan	meina	meint
dative	meinum	meinni	meinu
genitive	meins	meinnar	meins
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	meinir	meinar	mein
accusative	meina	meinar	mein
dative	meinum	meinum	meinum
genitive	meinna	meinna	meinna

Weak declension of meinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	meini	meina	meina
accusative	meina	meinu	meina
dative	meina	meinu	meina
genitive	meina	meinu	meina
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	meinu	meinu	meinu
accusative	meinu	meinu	meinu
dative	meinum	meinum	meinum
genitive	meinu	meinu	meinu

Descendants

• Icelandic: meinn
• Faroese: meinur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mein, mein-

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “meinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive