# myn
## Translingual
### Symbol

myn
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Mayan languages.

## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

myn (plural myns)
* Obsolete form of mine.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

myn (not comparable)
* Obsolete form of mean.

#### Noun

myn (plural myns)
* Obsolete form of mean.

### Etymology 3

Respelling of men based on womyn, which was itself respelled so as to be spelled differently from men.

#### Noun

myn pl (plural only)
* (very rare, chiefly humorous) Alternative spelling of men (plural of man)
** 1994, John Leo, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, →ISBN, page 41:Old Yeller — Senior animal companion of color. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — One of the monocultural oppressed womyn confronts the vertically challenged. Men at Arms — The myn are at it again.
** 2000 April, Out, volume 8, number 10, page 54:[…] the 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival is here. (Once again, myn are strictly forbidden.) The weekend-long event holds the promise of craft markets, acoustic folk sing-alongs, and Southern-food potlucks.
** 2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender, →ISBN, page 30:I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be). But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.

##### See also

* mxn

### Anagrams

* -nym, nym

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch mijn, from Middle Dutch mine, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”). Some senses were borrowed in Dutch from French mine (“explosive device”) and Middle French mine (“tunnel for sapping”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

myn (plural myne, diminutive myntjie)
* mine (place or tunnel for the excavation of mineral resources)
* mine (hidden device that explodes when triggered)
* mine (tunnel used for sapping enemy defence works or lines)

#### Derived terms

* diamantmyn
* goudmyn
* koolmyn
* mynbou
* mynskag
* seemyn
* silwermyn

## Middle English
### Determiner

myn (subjective pronoun I)
* Alternative form of min

### Pronoun

myn (subjective I)
* Alternative form of min

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /mɨn/
* (South Wales) IPA: /mɪn/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *mendo- (“kid, suckling”), which could ultimately be from the same root as mwyn (“mild, tender”), though Stokes prefers a comparison to Ancient Greek μαζός (mazós, “breast”), Old High German manzon, Albanian mεnt (“suck”).
Cognate with Cornish mynn, Irish meonnán, Scottish Gaelic meann and Manx mannan.

#### Noun

myn f (plural mynnau or mynnod)
* kid (young goat)
    Synonym: myn gafr

##### Usage notes

The word myn is usually found in the combination myn gafr rather than being used as a standalone word.

##### Derived terms

* myn gafr (“kid, young goat”)

#### References

* ↑ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “meann”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

### Etymology 2

Probably from mwyn.

#### Preposition

myn
* by (used only in oaths)
    Synonym: neno
    myn Duw ― by God!

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “myn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

### Pronunciation

* (Wood) IPA: /min/
* (Clay) IPA: /mɛɪ̯n/

### Determiner

myn
* my (first-person singular possessive determiner)

#### Derived terms

* mefrou
* mynhear

#### See also

| Number | Person | Person | Nominative | Objective | Objective | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Person | Nominative | Normal | Reflexive | Determiner | Pronoun |
| Singular | First | First | ik | my | mysels | myn | mines |
| Singular | Second | Informal | do/dû$^1$ | dy | dysels | dyn | dines |
| Singular | Second | Formal | jo | jo | josels | jo | jowes |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | hy | him | himsels | syn | sines |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | sy/hja$^1$ | har | harsels | har | harres |
| Singular | Third | Neuter | it | it | himsels | syn | sines |
| Plural | First | First | wy | ús | ússels | ús | uzes |
| Plural | Second | Second | jim(me) | jim(me) | jimsels/jinsels | jim(me) | jimmes |
| Plural | Third | Third | sy/hja$^1$ | har(ren) | harsels | har(ren) | harres |
| $^{1.}$ Now mostly archaic and unused ||||||||

#### Further reading

* “myn (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011