mynd

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse mynd (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

mynd f (genitive singular myndar, plural myndir)

1. image, picture
2. imagination (created by words)

Declension

f2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mynd	myndin	myndir	myndirnar
accusative	mynd	myndina	myndir	myndirnar
dative	mynd	myndini	myndum	myndunum
genitive	myndar	myndarinnar	mynda	myndanna

Derived terms

• hugmynd
• kykmynd
• ljósmynd
• myndabók
• myndagáta
• myndahøggari
• myndalist
• myndamál
• myndamaður
• myndasavn
• myndasøga
• myndatilfar
• pallmynd
• passmynd
• røntgenmynd

 

See also

• myndugleiki

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse mynd (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

mynd f (genitive singular myndar, nominative plural myndir)

1. image, picture

   Þetta er afar falleg mynd sem þú málaðir.

   This is a very nice picture you've painted.

2. form, image
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

3. movie, film

   Synonyms: kvikmynd, bíómynd

   Eigum við að fara á einhverja mynd?

   Wanna go see a film?

Declension

Declension of mynd (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mynd	myndin	myndir	myndirnar
accusative	mynd	myndina	myndir	myndirnar
dative	mynd	myndinni	myndum	myndunum
genitive	myndar	myndarinnar	mynda	myndanna

Derived terms

• andlitsmynd
• germynd
• gervitunglamynd
• hugmynd
• kvikmynd
• litmynd
• ljósmynd
• miðmynd
• myndataka
• nærmynd
• sjálfsmynd
• skýringarmynd
• veðurtunglamynd
• Venn-mynd
• þolmynd

 

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mundiz (“memory, mind”).

Noun

mynd f

1. shape, form
2. manner
3. image, figure

Inflection

  Declension of mynd (strong ō-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mynd	myndin	myndar	myndarnar
accusative	mynd	myndina	myndar	myndarnar
dative	mynd	myndinni	myndum	myndunum
genitive	myndar	myndarinnar	mynda	myndanna

Derived terms

• mynda
• myndasmiðr
• myndasmíði
• myndarligr

Descendants

• Icelandic: mynd
• Faroese: mynd
• Swedish: mynd

Further reading

• “mynd”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Welsh

Alternative forms

• myned (literary)

Etymology

Suppletive verb:

• Verbal noun from Middle Welsh mynet, from Proto-Brythonic *moned (compare Cornish mones, Breton mont, Gaulish moni (“come!”)), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *monītor (compare Middle Irish muinithir (“goes around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (compare Umbrian menes (“will come”), Lithuanian mìnti (“to trample, scutch”)).
• Indicative forms from Proto-Celtic *ageti (“to drive”) (compare Old Irish aigid), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (compare Latin agō).
• The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati (“to approach, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (compare Latin pellō (“strike, drive”), Epic Greek πίλναμαι (pílnamai, “approach”).
• The origins of imperative forms dos and cer remain unexplained.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɨ̞nd/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɨ̞n/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɪnd/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞nd

Verb

mynd (first-person singular present af)

1. to go

   Mae hi'n mynd i Gaerdydd heno. ― She's going to Cardiff tonight.

   Aeth hi ddoe. ― She went yesterday.

   Awn ni edrych. ― We will go and look.

   Ait ti i'r ysgol ar droed. ― You used to go to school on foot.

   Mae'n angenrheidiol yr elwyf nawr. ― It is necessary that I go now.

   Na, rwy'n mynd ar y trên bach. ― No, I'm going on the little train.

2. (colloquial, with yn) to become

   Mae Sioned yn mynd yn grac. ― Sioned is getting cross.

   Mae'r peth 'ma wedi mynd yn wyrdd. ― This thing has gone green.

Conjugation

Conjugation

Literary forms	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	af	ei	â	awn	ewch	ânt	eir, elir
imperfect indicative/conditional	awn	ait	âi	aem	aech	aent	eid, elid
preterite	euthum	aethost	aeth	aethom	aethoch	aethont, aethant	aethpwyd, aed, awd
pluperfect	aethwn, elswn	aethit, elsit	aethai, elsai	aethem, elsem	aethech, elsech	aethent, elsent	aethid, elsid
present subjunctive	elwyf	elych	êl, elo	elom	eloch	elont	eler
imperfect subjunctive	elwn	elit	elai	elem	elech	elent	elid
imperative	—	dos	aed, eled	awn	ewch	aent, elent	aer, eler
verbal noun	mynd, myned
verbal adjectives	mynededig mynedadwy

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
preterite	es i, etho i	est ti	aeth o/e/hi	aethon ni, ethon ni	aethoch chi, ethoch chi	aethon nhw, ethon nhw
future	af i, a i	ei di	eith o/e/hi, aiff e/hi	awn ni, ewn ni	ewch chi	ân nhw, ewn nhw
conditional	awn i, elwn i, elen i	aet ti, elet ti	âi fo/fe/hi, elai fe/hi	aen ni, elen ni	aech chi, elech chi	aen nhw, elen nhw
imperative	—	dos, cer	—	—	ewch, cerwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Mutated forms of mynd

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mynd	fynd	unchanged	unchanged

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

Further reading

• King, Gareth (1993) Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 183, 188, 193–94, 226.
• Klingebiel, Kathryn (1994) 234 Welsh Verbs: Standard Literary Forms, Belmont, MA: Ford & Bailie, →ISBN, pages 195–96.
• Thorne, David A. (1993) A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar (Reference Grammars), Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, →ISBN, § 294, pages 281–85.
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