min

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See also mīn, mín, mǐn, and mìn

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Symbol

min

  1. (mathematics) minimum function

[edit] English

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min

  1. minute

[edit] Basque

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min

  1. pain

[edit] Crimean Tatar

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min

  1. defect, fault

[edit] Danish

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Old Norse mínn

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min mit, mine

  1. my
  2. mine

[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Preposition

min

  1. minus

[edit] Verb

min

  1. The first-person singular present tense of minnen.
  2. The imperative of minnen.

[edit] Esperanto

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Esperanto first person singular pronoun mi + accusative/objective case ending -n

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min (accusative of mi)

  1. me, to me

[edit] Galician

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'min oblique (nominative eu, dative me, accusative me)

  1. me (singular first-person personal pronoun)

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[edit] Kurdish

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min

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my, mine

[edit] Maltese

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From Arabic

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min

  1. who

[edit] Mandarin

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min

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, mīn, mín, mǐn, or mìn.

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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.


[edit] Old English

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Common Germanic *minaz, from Indo-European *meino-, from *mei (locative form of *me- ‘me’) + *-no- (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃.

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mīn

  1. my
  2. mine

[edit] Old High German

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Common Germanic *minaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn

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mīn

  1. my
  2. mine

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Etymology 1

From minut

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min

  1. minute
  2. minimum

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Old Norse mínn

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min mitt, mina IPA: ˈmɪn

  1. my
  2. mine

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Germanic Miene

[edit] Noun

Inflection for min Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative min minen miner minerna
Genitive mins minens miners minernas

min c. IPA: ˈmiːn

  1. facial expression
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