FromFrenchmine(“appearance”) (whence also Danishmine and GermanMiene), perhaps from Bretonmin(“face of an animal”), or from Latinminio(“to redden”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):/miːn/

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• Rhymes:-iːn
• Homophones:mean,mesne

mien (countable anduncountable,pluralmiens)

1. (countable,uncountable)Demeanor; facialexpression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
   • 1847,R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, inPoems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company,→OCLC,page238:

     Gentlest Guardians marked serene / His early hope, his liberalmien;[…]

   • 1856, Joseph Turnley,The Language of the Eye,→OCLC,page111:

     Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance andmien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.

   • 1860, Stephen Foster, “Jenny's coming o'er the green”‎^[1]:

     Jenny's coming o'er the green, / Fairer form was never seen, / Winning is her gentlemien; / Why do I love her so?

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 7, inStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC:

     taking the air with an infinite sadness ofmien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

   • 2015 July 23, Siobhan Roberts, “John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician”, inThe Guardian‎^[2]:

     Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldlymien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”

2. (countable) A specific facial expression.
   • 2007 February 10, Claudia La Rocco, “Stony Miens and Sad Hearts”, inNew York Times‎^[3]:

     It’s hard to say which is worse: the press-on smiles favored by many a ballet dancer, or the stony “I’m going to pretend this isn’t happening to me”miens often found in contemporary troupes like White Road.

• Emin,Mine,mine

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchmien, fromOld Frenchmeon, fromLatinmeum, the neuter ofmeus.

• IPA^(key):/mjɛ̃/

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• Rhymes:-ɛ̃
• Homophone:miens

mien (femininemienne,masculine pluralmiens,feminine pluralmiennes)

1. (dated) (of)mine, myown

   Unmien ami.

   A friendof mine.

   Cette découverte estmienne.

   This discovery ismy own.

• mon,ma,mes
• tien,sien,nôtre,vôtre

• “mien”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• mine,miné

mien f (pluralmiene)

1. Veldeke spelling ofMinn

Latinmeum.

mien

1. (stressed)my;mine

• chiefly used after an article (un,le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context

  unmien fils

  my son

  enveierai lemien

  I will send mine

• French:mien

FromEnglishmain.

mien

1. main

mien

1. my

• dien (your, thy)
• sien (his)
• mie (me)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• IPA^(key):/min/

mien

1. feminine ofmin
2. neuter ofmin
3. plural ofmin

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “mien”, inSaterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske,→ISBN

• IPA^(key):[mi̯en]

mien f

1. genitiveplural ofmena

mien n

1. genitiveplural ofmeno

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mien f

1. carrot

FromOld Frisiangemēne, fromProto-West Germanic*gamainī, fromProto-Germanic*gamainiz, fromProto-Indo-European*ḱom-moynis. Cognate withGermangemein,Englishmean,Gothic𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃(gamains) andLatincommūnis.

mien

1. common,communal
2. common,everyday
3. general

• mienskip

• “mien”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011