myance

Middle Scots

Alternative forms

• myane, myoun, myan

Etymology

From earlier moyen, from Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), from Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”).

Noun

myance

1. means

Further reading

• “myan(e, n.¹”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.