myne

English

Pronoun

myne

Obsolete spelling of mine.
- 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
  ...leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance, which I haue truly found to me and myne, and therfore do duely and dayly pray for you and yours...

Anagrams

Meyn, Nemy, nyem

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch (de/het) mijne.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈməinə/
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Pronoun

myne

mine (that or those of me)
Daardie is jou hemp en hierdie is myne.
That is your shirt and this one is mine.

Middle English

Determiner

myne (subjective pronoun I)

Alternative form of min
- 1380-1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Prologue to the Reves Tale", Canterbury Tales
  Myn herte is also mowled as myne heris
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Pronoun

myne (subjective I)

Alternative form of min

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ne/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“thought, feeling, emotion, desire”). Cognate with Old Norse munr, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns).

Noun

myne m

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	myne	mynas
accusative	myne	mynas
genitive	mynes	myna
dative	myne	mynum

Derived terms

Middle English: mine, mune, mynne

English: min

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow”).

Alternative forms

mine

Noun

myne m

minnow

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	myne	mynas
accusative	myne	mynas
genitive	mynes	myna
dative	myne	mynum

Related terms

*mynu

Yola

Adjective

myne

Alternative form of mhyne
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
  Myne saaughe.
  Very comfortable.

References

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 66