myne
- Obsolete spelling ofmine.
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 andmyne, and therfore do duely and dayly pray for you and yours...
FromDutch(de/het)mijne.
myne
- mine(that or those of me)
Daardie is jou hemp en hierdie ismyne.- That is your shirt and this one ismine.
myne (subjective pronounI)
- alternative form ofmin
- 1380-1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "Prologue to the Reves Tale",Canterbury Tales
myne (subjectiveI)
- alternative form ofmin
FromProto-West Germanic*muni, fromProto-Germanic*muniz(“thought, feeling, emotion, desire”). Cognate withOld Norsemunr,Gothic𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃(muns).
myne m
- mind;memory,remembrance
- feeling,affection,love,favor
- purpose,desire,wish
- memorial
Strongi-stem:
FromProto-West Germanic*muniwu(“minnow”).
myne m
- minnow
Strongi-stem:
myne
- alternative form ofmhyne
1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Myne saaughe.- Very comfortable.
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published1867,page66
