mine

See also: Mine, miné, and -mine

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mīn, IPA(key): /maɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.

Pronoun

mine

  1. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
    1. Used predicatively.
      The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
    2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.
      Mine has been a long journey.
    3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
      Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
    4. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
    5. (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
Usage notes
  • My and mine are essentially two forms of the same word, with my being used attributively before the noun, and mine being used in all other cases, as may be seen in most of the usage examples and quotations above. In this respect, this word is analogous to most of the other possessive pronouns (e.g. your vs. yours), as well as a number of other noun modifiers, such as lone/alone.
  • Historically, my came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, mine still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above.
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

Noun

mine (plural mines)

Entrance to a gold mine in Victoria, Australia
Cutaway view of an anti-tank landmine
  1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
    This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
    He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
    Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
  2. (figuratively) Any source of wealth or resources.
    She's a mine of information.
  3. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
  4. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
    His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
    The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
  5. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  6. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  7. (computing) A machine used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
    Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
  2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
    • Ure
      Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.
  3. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
    We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
  4. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  5. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
    the mining cony
  6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
    • Hayward
      They mined the walls.
    • Sir Walter Scott
      Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
  7. (slang) To pick one's nose.
  8. (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mine.

Noun

mine (plural mines)

  1. Alternative form of mien

Anagrams

Aromanian

Pronoun

mine

  1. Alternative form of mini

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun

mine

  1. moon
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Mine. Luna.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪnɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪnɛ
  • Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Verb

mine

  1. third-person singular present indicative of minout

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːnə/, [ˈmiːnə], [ˈmiːn̩]

Noun

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

  1. look, air, mien
  2. (military) mine
  3. pit

Inflection

Pronoun

mine

  1. (possessive) Plural form of min

See also

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /min/
  • audio (une mine)(file)

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

Noun

mine f (plural mines)

  1. mine (excavation or explosive)
  2. pencil lead

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *mēnis, in the sense of "red")[1], or from Italian mina, from Latin minio (“to redden”).[2]

Noun

mine f (plural mines)

  1. appearance, physical aspect; expression
Derived terms
  • avoir bonne mine
  • avoir mauvaise mine
  • faire bonne mine à mauvais jeu
  • faire mine de/que
  • mine de rien

Etymology 3

From miner

Verb

mine

  1. first-person singular present indicative of miner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of miner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of miner
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of miner
  5. second-person singular imperative of miner

Anagrams

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Rea, J. & Rea, C. B. (1973): Circa instans, p. 401
  2. ↑ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 727, mine1

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲɪnʲə/

Adjective

mine

  1. genitive feminine singular of mion
  2. comparative degree of mion

Noun

mine f

  1. genitive singular of min

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mine mhine not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Noun

mine f

  1. plural of mina

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mine

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みね

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French mine.

Noun

mine f

  1. ore vein, mine
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Determiner

mine

  1. inflection of mijn:
    1. feminine nominative and accusative singular
    2. nominative and accusative plural

Further reading

  • “mine (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Determiner

mine (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of min

Pronoun

mine (subjective I)

  1. Alternative form of min

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine

Noun

mine f, m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

  1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms

Determiner

mine

  1. plural of min

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²miːnə/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine

Noun

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

  1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms

Verb

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mine/min)

  1. Alternative form of mina

Determiner

mine

  1. plural of min

References

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun

miné

  1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Portuguese

Verb

mine

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minar

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ine

Etymology 1

From Latin mē, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *mēne, or through analogy with cine, from *quene, from quem. It also possibly acquired this ending through adopting the common Latin accusative inflection -inem. Compare tine, sine. Compare also Aromanian mini, Dalmatian main.

Pronoun

mine (stressed accusative form of eu)

  1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") me
    mă iubești pe mine? - Do you love me?
  • mă (unstressed form)
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mine

  1. plural of mină

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məin/

Pronoun

mine

  1. mine

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mine f

  1. genitive singular of min

Spanish

Verb

mine

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of minar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of minar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of minar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of minar.

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun

miné

  1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mine n sg

  1. (possessive pronoun): dative neuter singular of männ

Declension

Possessive pronoun
 Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter   
 Nominative   männ   mi   mätt
 Accusative  (määnn)   miin
 Dative   minom   männar   mine
 Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter   
 Nominative   miin   miin   miin
 Accusative
 Dative   minom   minom   minom
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