FromFrenchmine(“appearance”) (whence also Danishmine and GermanMiene), perhaps from Bretonmin(“face of an animal”), or from Latinminio(“to redden”).[1]
mien (countable anduncountable,pluralmiens)
- (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?
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?”
- (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.
demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer
- Bulgarian:изражение на лицето(izraženie na liceto)
- Czech:vystupování n,výraz tváře,vzezření n,vzhled (cs) m,tvář (cs) f
- Esperanto:mieno
- Finnish:ilme (fi)
- French:mine (fr) f
- German:Miene (de) f,Gesichtsausdruck (de) m,Mimik (de) f,Auftreten (de) n,Ausdruck (de) m,Benehmen (de) n,Gebahren n
- Greek:ύφος (el) n(ýfos)
- Irish:gnúis f
- Italian:cera (it),atteggiamento (it) m,postura (it) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:mine (no) m orf
- Occitan:mina (oc),postura (oc),comportament (oc)
- Polish:mina (pl)
- Russian:ми́на (ru) f(mína),физионо́мия (ru) f(fizionómija),выраже́ниелица́ n(vyražénije licá)
- Spanish:apostura
- Swedish:min (sv) c
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specific facial expression
- ^Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 727, mine1
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchmien, fromOld Frenchmeon, fromLatinmeum, the neuter ofmeus.
mien (femininemienne,masculine pluralmiens,feminine pluralmiennes)
- (dated) (of)mine, myown
Unmien ami.- A friendof mine.
Cette découverte estmienne.- This discovery ismy own.
mien f (pluralmiene)
- Veldeke spelling ofMinn
Latinmeum.
mien
- (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
enveierai lemien- I will send mine
FromEnglishmain.
mien
- main
mien
- my
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
mien
- feminine ofmin
- neuter ofmin
- plural ofmin
- Marron C. Fort (2015) “mien”, inSaterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske,→ISBN
mien f
- genitiveplural ofmena
mien n
- genitiveplural ofmeno
mien f
- carrot
FromOld Frisiangemēne, fromProto-West Germanic*gamainī, fromProto-Germanic*gamainiz, fromProto-Indo-European*ḱom-moynis. Cognate withGermangemein,Englishmean,Gothic𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃(gamains) andLatincommūnis.
mien
- common,communal
- common,everyday
- general
- “mien”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011
