myne

myne

1. 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...

• Meyn, Nemy, nyem

From Dutch (de/het) mijne.

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myne

1. mine (that or those of me)

   Daardie is jou hemp en hierdie is myne.

   That is your shirt and this one is mine.

myne (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of min
   • 1380-1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Prologue to the Reves Tale", Canterbury Tales

     Myn herte is also mowled as myne heris

myne (subjective I)

1. Alternative form of min

• IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ne/

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

myne m

1. mind; memory, remembrance
2. feeling, affection, love, favor
3. purpose, desire, wish
4. memorial

• Middle English: mine, mune, mynne

• English: min

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

myne f

1. minnow

• Middle English: menowe, menawe, menew, meney, menow, menwu
  • English: minnow (minny, minnie)
  • Scots: mennon, minnon
  • → Anglo-Norman: *menoun

myne

1. Alternative form of mhyne
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Myne saaughe.

     Very comfortable.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 66