mian

Compare Wolio mia.

mian

1. person
2. people

• Robert Busenitz & Daniel Bradbury (2016). Balantak Dictionary – mian. SIL International.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmian]
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• Rhymes: -ian
• Hyphenation: mi‧an

mian

1. accusative singular of mia: my, mine

• IPA^(key): /mʲiən̪ˠ/, /mʲiənˠ/; /mʲiːn̪ˠ/, /mʲiːnˠ/

From Old Irish mían (“desire, wish”).

mian f (genitive singular méine, nominative plural mianta)

1. desire, wish

• ainmhian (“passion, lust”)
• is mian le (“to want”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mian”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mían (‘desire’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

From Old Irish mían (“mineral, ore”).

mian f (genitive singular méine, nominative plural mianta)

1. ore

• mianach (“vein of ore, mine”)
• mianadóir (“miner”)
• mianadóireacht (“act of mining”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mian”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 mían (‘mineral’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

mian

1. Nonstandard spelling of mián.
2. Nonstandard spelling of miǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of miàn.

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

• IPA^(key): /mjan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: mian

mian n

1. genitive plural of miano