miña

See also: mina, Mina, mína, miná, minā, mină, and -mina

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mĩa, miña, from Latin mea (“my, mine”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmiɲa̝/

Pronoun

miña f (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

  1. (possessive) mine, my
    Esta é a miña casa. ― This is my house.
    A casa é miña. ― The house is mine.
    Miña raíña, que tes? ― My queen [my love], what's wrong?

Usage notes

As a determiner it is usually preceded by the definite article a, but not when used in a vocative context.

See also
  • Appendix:Galician pronouns

References
  • “mi_a” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “miña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “miña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “miña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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