mine

mine · pronoun, determiner¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*méynos
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*mīnaz
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*mīn
4. Old English · inherited frommīn
5. Middle English · inherited frommin
6. English todaymine

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.

mine · noun, verb²

1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*meinis“ore, metal”
2. Late Latin · derived frommina
3. Old French · derived frommine
4. Middle English · inherited from[Term?]
5. English todaymine

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

mine · noun³

1. French · borrowed frommine
2. English todaymine

Borrowed from French mine.

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