minni

1. woman

• Mauro Tosco,The Dhaasanac Language: Grammar, Text, Vocabulary of a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnːɪ]

  Rhymes:-ɪnːɪ

minni n (genitive singularminnis, pluralminni orminnir)

1. memory
2. souvenir
3. commemoration
4. (computing)storage

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnːɪ/

  Rhymes:-ɪnːɪ

FromOld Norseminni, fromProto-Germanic*gaminþiją.

minni n (genitive singularminnis,nominative pluralminni)

1. memory(the ability to remember things; not a particular recollection)

   festa sér í minni ―to commit to memory, to memorize

   leggja á minnið ―to commit to memory, to memorize

   í manna minnum ―in people's memories, as long as people can remember

2. (computing)computermemory

   Synonym:tölvuminni

3. (literature)motif

   Synonyms:mótíf,sagnaminni

4. (dated) atoast to someone

   Synonym:skál

5. (obsolete) akeepsake,memento,souvenir

   Synonym:minjagripur

• velkomandaminni
• leggja á minnið

• minning(“memory, something remembered”)

minni

1. dativefemininesingular ofminn(“my/mine”)

FromProto-Finnic*minijä.Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Ala-Laukaa)IPA^(key): /ˈminːi/,[ˈminʲː]
• (Soikkola)IPA^(key): /ˈminːi/,[ˈminːi]
• Rhymes:-inʲː,-inːi
• Hyphenation:min‧ni

minni

1. aunt-in-law(one's uncle's wife)
2. fraternalsister-in-law(one's brother's wife)
   • 1916, V. Alava, quoting Naastoi, Tarinaisista, “1966. Soikkola, Säätinä V I 1042”, in Väinö Salminen, V. Alava, editor,Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎^[1], volume III2,Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines1-2:

     »Oiminni, velloin vaimo, // Lunassa minuista poisi,

     »Ohsister-in-law, brother's wife, // Rescue me away,

3. (endearing)aunt(woman of an older generation)

• (fraternal sister-in-law):käly

• nato(“one's partner's sister”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971),Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page311

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪn.nɪ/
• Rhymes:-ɪnnɪ

minni

1. first-personsingularpronominal form ofminn:fromme

minni n

(non-standard since2012)

1. definiteplural ofminne

FromProto-Germanic*(ga)minþiją.

minni n (genitiveminnis)

2. memory
3. atoast (drunk to someone’s memory)
4. anaccount of ancient events;myth

• minna
• muna

• Icelandic:minni
• Faroese:minni
• Norwegian Nynorsk:minne
• Norwegian Bokmål:minne,minni
• Swedish:minne
• Danish:minde
• → Middle English:minne
  • English:min

FromProto-Germanic*minnizô, comparative of*lītilaz.

minni (adverbminnr,superlative degreeminnstr)

2. less,smaller:comparative degree oflítill

• minka,minnka

• Icelandic:minni
• Faroese:minni
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Nynorsk:mindre

  Norwegian Bokmål:mindre

• Old Swedish:minne,mindre
  • Swedish:mindre
• Old Danish:minnæ,mindræ
  • Danish:mindre

Probably related tomunnr(“mouth”).

• mynni

minni n (genitiveminnis)

2. mouth(of a river, fjord, valley)

• Norwegian Nynorsk:mynne n

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

minni f

2. femininedativesingular ofminn

minni

1. inflection ofminna:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicativeactive
   2. third-personsingular/pluralpresentsubjunctiveactive
   3. second-personsingularimperativeactive

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “minni1”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “minni2”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “minni3”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

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