myn
English
[uredi]Etymology
[uredi]Respelling of men based on womyn, which was itself respelled so as to be spelled differently from men.
Noun
[uredi]myn pl (plural only)
- (very rare, chiefly humorous) (deprecated use of(plural of man)
|lang=
parameter) Alternative spelling of men- 1994, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police →ISBN 1412845386, page 41:
- Old Yeller — Senior animal companion of color.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — One of the monocultural oppressed womyn confronts the vertically challenged.
- Men at Arms — The myn are at it again.
- 2000 April, Out, volume 8, number 10, page 54:
- […] the 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival is here. (Once again, myn are strictly forbidden.) The weekend-long event holds the promise of craft markets, acoustic folk sing-alongs, and Southern-food potlucks.
- 2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender →ISBN 1411637119, page 30:
- I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be). But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.
- 1994, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police →ISBN 1412845386, page 41:
Anagrams
[uredi]Afrikaans
[uredi]Etymology
[uredi]From Holandski mijn, from Middle Dutch mine, from Stari Francuski mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”). Some senses were borrowed in Dutch from Francuski mine (“explosive device”) and Middle French mine (“tunnel for sapping”).
Noun
[uredi]myn (plural myne, diminutive myntjie)
- mine (place or tunnel for the excavation of mineral resources)
- mine (hidden device that explodes when triggered)
- mine (tunnel used for sapping enemy defence works or lines)
Derived terms
[uredi]Middle English
[uredi]Determiner
[uredi]myn (subjective pronoun I)
- (deprecated use of
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Pronoun
[uredi]myn (subjective I)
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) Alternative form of min
References
[uredi]- “min, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.
West Frisian
[uredi]Etymology
[uredi]From Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.
Pronunciation
[uredi]- (Klaaifrysk)
- (Wâldfrysk)
Determiner
[uredi]myn
- my (first-person singular possessive determiner)
See also
[uredi]Šablon:West Frisian personal pronouns
Further reading
[uredi]- “myn (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal[1] (in Holandski), 2011
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