Etymology

mino

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Today it means: A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw. Full definition →

Japanese 蓑
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mino · noun1

  1. Japanese · borrowed from蓑
  2. English todaymino

Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).

mino · noun2

Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).

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