# min
## Translingual
### Symbol

min
* (mathematics) minimum function
* (metrology) minute in International System of Units
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Minangkabau.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Minangkabau terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* min.

#### Noun

min (plural mins)
* Abbreviation of minute.
* (colloquial) Clipping of minute.
    Dinner's ready, darling! – Be there in a min!

### Etymology 2

From Middle English min, from Old English min (“less; small, mean”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min (“less, lesser”), West Frisian min (“small, bad”), Dutch min (“less, small”), Low German minn (“small, low, lean”), German minder (“less”), Icelandic minna (“less”), Latin minus (“less”).

#### Alternative forms

* myn, minne, mynne

#### Adjective

min
* (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Less; smaller; lower.
** Le Bone Florence (late 1300s)
    The more and the minne

##### Derived terms

* minnock

### Etymology 3

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory”); and also from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”).

#### Noun

min (plural mins)
* (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
** 1875, Joshiah Gilbet Holland, Sevenoaks:[…] and faith I've done that same and found me min; […]

### Etymology 4

From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above.

#### Verb

min (third-person singular simple present mins, present participle minning, simple past and past participle minned)
* (transitive, obsolete) to bring to the mind of; remind
* (transitive, obsolete) to remember
* (transitive, obsolete) to mention

### Etymology 5
#### Alternative forms

* min.

#### Noun

min (plural mins)
* Abbreviation of minimum.
* (colloquial) Clipping of minimum.
    Antonym: max
    He's gotta be at least 60, min!

##### Derived terms

* max-min fairness
* min-entropy
* min-max
* min pay

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* INM, NMI, nim

## Arigidi
### Pronoun

min
* me, first person singular pronoun, as object

### References

* B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* minu

### Etymology

From Latin minō, collateral form of minor. Compare Romanian mâna, mân.

### Verb

min (third-person singular present indicative minã, past participle minatã)
* to move

#### Related terms

* amin
* minari / minare
* minat
* mãn

## Asturian
### Pronoun

min
* me (as the object of a preposition)

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, “thousand”), Turkish bin (“thousand”), Bashkir мең (meñ, “thousand”), etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [min]
* Audio:(file)

### Numeral

min
* thousand

#### Declension
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /min/, [mĩn]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Basque *biN.

#### Adjective

min (comparative minago, superlative minen, excessive minegi)
* spicy, hot, bitter
* painful
* intimate
* (chiefly Northern) strong, intense

##### Declension
#### Noun

min inan
* pain
* suffering
* nostalgia, longing
* desire, wish

##### Derived terms

* maitemin (“infatuation”)
* maitemindu (“to fall in love”)
* min egin (“to cause pain”)
* min eman (“to cause pain”)
* min gorri (“erysipelas”)
* min hartu (“to hurt (oneself)”)
* min hori (“jaundice”)
* min izan (“to be in pain”)
* minantz (“tendency, illness”)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Basque *bini.

#### Noun

min inan
* (Biscayan) Alternative form of mihi (“tongue”)

### References

* ↑ “min” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

### Further reading

* “min”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “min”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Chinese
### Etymology

From clipping of English minus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːi̯⁵⁵/, /maːi̯n⁵⁵/

### Suffix

min
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, school slang, university slang) minus (in an academic grade)
    A min ― A-

## Cornish
### Alternative forms

* mìn, mynn

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɪn]

### Noun

min f (singulative minen)
* kids (young goats)

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

min (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* defect, fault

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my”), genitive of *ek (“I”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/, [miːˀn]

### Adjective

min
* Abbreviation of minimal.
    Alternative form: min.

### Noun

min
* Abbreviation of minut.
* Abbreviation of minimum.
    Alternative form: min.

### Pronoun

min (neuter mit, plural mine)
* mine 1.st person singular possessive pronoun
* my 1.st person singular possessive adjective

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | common | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Singular | Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | hendes | hendes |
| Singular | Third | common (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | indefinite | man | en | ens | ens | ens |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine |
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | vores | vores |
| Plural | First | archaic / formal | vi | os | vor | vort | vore |
| Plural | Second | – | I | jer | jeres | jeres | jeres |
| Plural | Third | – | de | dem | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | sig | deres | deres | deres |

## Domari
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِنْ (min).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪn/

### Preposition

min
* from

### References

* Matras, Yaron (2012) A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: min
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.

#### Preposition

min
* minus
    Synonym: minus
    Antonym: plus

##### Derived terms

* minteken

##### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: men

#### Adjective

min
* (obsolete) comparative degree of weinig; less, fewer

##### Derived terms

* min of meer

#### Adjective

min (comparative minder, superlative minst)
* few, little, less common synonym of weinig.
* opprobrious, unpleasant

##### Derived terms

* evenmin
* minachten
* niettemin

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch min, minne, from Old Dutch minna, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Old Frisian minne, Old Saxon minnia, Old High German minna (German Minne).

#### Noun

min f (uncountable)
* (poetic) love
    Synonym: liefde

##### Alternative forms

* minne

##### Derived terms

* kunstmin
* mingeneugt
* mingenoot
* mingenot
* minnedicht
* minnedorst
* minnedrank
* minnedrift
* minnedronken
* minnegloed
* minnekeur
* minnekoorts
* minnekunst
* minnelust
* minnenood
* minnepand
* minnepijn
* minneplegen
* minnesmart
* minnespel
* minneverkeer
* minnevonk
* minnevuur
* minnewee
* minnewerk
* minnewoede
* minnezang
* minzaam
* minzucht
* onmin

##### Related terms

* minnen

### Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch minne, from minnemoeder.

#### Noun

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)
* wetnurse
* maid, especially a nursemaid

##### Related terms

* minnemoeder

##### Descendants

* Negerhollands: minnetje (from the diminutive)
* → Papiamentu: menchi, minnetsje, míntsje (from the diminutive)

### Etymology 4

A contraction of mannin (“woman”).

#### Noun

min f (plural minnen, diminutive minnetje n)
* woman

##### Derived terms

* meermin
* zeemeermin

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

min
* inflection of minnen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Elfdalian
### Etymology

From Old Norse með, with a change from ð > n.

### Preposition

min
* with

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Esperanto first person singular pronoun mi + accusative/objective case ending -n

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [min]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: min

### Pronoun

min
* accusative of mi
    Li batis min! ― He hit me!
* myself
    Mi vidas min. ― I see myself.

#### See also

| | | Singular | Singular | Singular | Plural | Plural | Plural |
| | | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive |
| First person | First person | mi | min | mia | ni | nin | nia |
| Second person | Formal | vi | vin | via | vi | vin | via |
| Second person | Familiar$^1$ | ci | cin | cia | vi | vin | via |
| Third person | Masculine | li | lin | lia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Feminine | ŝi | ŝin | ŝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Neuter | ĝi | ĝin | ĝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Gender-neutral$^2$ | ri ŝli | rin ŝlin | ria ŝlia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Reflexive | si | sin | sia | si | sin | sia |
| Indefinite | Indefinite | oni | onin | onia | oni | onin | onia |
| Notes ||||||||
| $^1$ The second person familiar pronouns are archaic. $^2$ The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used. $^3$ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used. ||||||||

## Finnish
### Noun

min
* Abbreviation of minuutti.

### Anagrams

* nim

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* mio, mino

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin meum. Doublet of mon (possessive determiner).

### Pronoun

min (feminine singular mina, masculine plural mins, feminine plural mines) (ORB, broad)
* mine (first-person singular possessor)

#### See also

| singular | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | jo | mè | mè | mè | min |
| 2nd person | te | tè | tè | tè | tin |
| 3rd person masculine | il | lo / le | lui | lui | sin |
| 3rd person feminine | el | la | lyé | lyé | | sin |
| 3rd person neuter | o | o | y | — | sin |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | sin |
| plural | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | nos | nos | nos | nos | noutro |
| 2nd person | vos | vos | vos | vos | voutro |
| 3rd person masculine | ils | los / les | lor | lor | lor |
| 3rd person feminine | els | les | lor / lyés | lor / lyés | | lor |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | lor |
| $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. |

### References

* mien in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* min in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## Fula
### Etymology 1
#### Pronoun

min
* 1st person singular emphatic pronoun I, me

##### Usage notes

* Used in Pular.

#### Dialectal variants

* miin (Pulaar, Fouta-toro, Adamawa, Liptaako, Maasina)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

min
* (Adamawa) first person plural exclusive;short form we, us

##### Usage notes

* Used in Adamawa Fulfulde.
* Used in Maasina Fulfulde.
* Used in Western Niger Fulfulde.
* Used in Pulaar.

##### See also

* enen
* en
* meɗen
* hiɗen

#### Dialectal variants

* men (Pular)

### References

* Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
* Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993) “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies‎, volume 35, →DOI, pages 215-230

## Galician
### Pronoun

min
* oblique of eu

## Guayabero
### Noun

min
* water

### References

* Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary (1992), page 48; also ASJP (min); contrast Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 149, which has minta

## Hungarian
### Etymology

mi (“what”) +‎ -n

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmin]

### Pronoun

min
* superessive singular of mi
    Min dolgozol? ― What are you working on?

### See also

$^1$Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns /

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /min/

### Adverb

min
* less
    Antonym: plu

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈmin/ [ˈmin]
* Rhymes: -in
* Syllabification: min

### Etymology 1

borrowed from Dutch min, from Middle Dutch min, from Old Dutch min.

#### Adjective

min
* apocopic form of minus

### Etymology 2

borrowed from Dutch munt, from Middle Dutch mente, minte, from Latin mentha.

#### Noun

min (plural min-min)
* mint (any plant in the family Lamiaceae)
* mint (the flavouring of the plant)
* mint (a green colour, like that of mint)
    min:
* mint (mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath)

### References

* 1 2 Nicoline van der Sijs (2010) Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd‎, Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC

### Further reading

* “min” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi-. Compare Finnish mitä ... sen.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmin/, [ˈmin]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈmin/, [ˈmin]
* Rhymes: -in
* Hyphenation: min

### Adverb

min
* (+ sen) Establishes a correlation between multiple comparatives in a sentence; the ...
    Min enemmän siä sööt, sen suuremp siä oot. ― The more you eat, the bigger you are.
** 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:Min alemmaal ono päivyt maan päält, sen pitemp on kupahain, a min hää ono ylempään, sen lyhemp ono kupahain.The lower the sun is along the earth, the longer is the shadow, and the higher it is, the shorter is the shadow.

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 310

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ˈmʲɪnʲ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈmʲɨ̞nʲ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish men, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”).

#### Noun

min f (genitive singular mine)
* meal
* powdered matter

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
nominative
min
vocative
a mhin
genitive
mine
dative
min
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative
an mhin
genitive
na mine
dative
leis an min don mhin :

##### Derived terms

* brachán mine buí m (“polenta”)
* brachán mine coirce m (“oatmeal porridge”)
* céad mine m (“a hundredweight of meal”)
* ceirín mine rois m (“linseed-meal poultice”)
* gairbhseach mine f (“coarsely ground meal”)
* mealdar mine m (“quantity of meal from grinding”)
* min bhuí f (“corn meal”)
* min chairde f (“flour obtained on credit”)
* min chaiscín f (“whole meal”)
* min chalóg f (“flake-meal”)
* min choirce f (“oatmeal”)
* min gharbh f (“coarse meal”)
* min loiscreáin f (“meal made from singed and ground oats”)
* min rabh f (“tiny bits, small fragments”)
* min sáibh f (“sawdust”)
* min tíortha f (“meal made from singed oats”)
* mornán mine m (“a measure of meal”)
* rascalach mine m (“coarse meal”)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

min
* inflection of mion:
** vocative/genitive masculine singular
** (archaic) dative feminine singular

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “min”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “min”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “min”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
* Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39
* Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

## Japanese
### Romanization

min
* Rōmaji transcription of みん

## Kwanka
### Noun

min
* water

### Further reading

* Roger Blench, The Kwaŋ Language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2007), page 4

## Latvian
### Verb

min
* third-person singular/plural present indicative of minēt
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of minēt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of minēt

### Verb

min
* inflection of mīt:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of mīt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of mīt

## Livonian
### Pronoun

min
* genitive/dative singular of minā

## Low German
### Alternative forms

* mien, myn, miin, mihn
* meyn, mäin (Westphalian: Sauerländisch)
* muin (Westphalian: Ravensbergisch, in Soest)
* müin, muin (Westphalian: Lippisch)
* moin (Eastphalian)
* m$^ä$in (Eastphalian)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German min (myn).

### Pronoun

min
* my (mine)
** 1772, De Platt-Dütsche; een Geschrywe, dat dee Hooch-Dütschen eene Wochenschrift heeten, page 319:Iß't (dacht he) mynes Vaaders Ernst: so kann ick, up de lezt, doch noch doohn, wat ick will. Iß't syn Spaas: so süht he doch, datt ick em gehorsaam bin.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### See also

* ik/ick
* din, sin

## Maia
### Noun

min
* comb

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic مَن (man), dialectal Arabic مِين (mīn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/

### Pronoun

min
* (interrogative) who

#### Derived terms

* nirra (narra, larra)
* ta’ min

## Mandarin
### Romanization

min
* Nonstandard spelling of mín.
* Nonstandard spelling of mǐn.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From Cantonese 麵 / 面 (min$^6$).

### Noun

min
* noodle

### References

* Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch min, from Proto-Germanic *minniz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪn/

### Pronoun

min
* less
    Antonym: mêe

#### Alternative forms

* minre, minder

### Adverb

min
* less, to a smaller degree
    Antonym: mêe

#### Alternative forms

* minre, minder

### Further reading

* “min (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* “min (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “min (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* mine, minne, myn, myne, mynne, mein, meyne

### Etymology

From Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Determiner

min (nominative I)
* First-person singular genitive determiner: my

#### Usage notes

min is usually used before a vowel and h-, while mi is usually used before a consonant other than h-, much as with Modern English an/a.

#### Descendants

* English: mine (determiner)
* Scots: mine (determiner)

### Pronoun

min (nominative I)
* First-person singular possessive pronoun: mine, of me

#### Descendants

* English: mine (pronoun)
* Scots: mine (pronoun)

### References

* “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

## Middle High German
### Etymology

From Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

### Determiner

mîn
* my, mine

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: miin, myn
* Bavarian: mei
    Cimbrian: main, moi (Luserna)
* Hunsrik: mein
* Luxembourgish: mäin
* German: mein
* Vilamovian: maj
* Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

## North Frisian
### Determiner

min
* (Sylt) my (first-person singular possessive determiner)
* (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of man (“my”)

### Pronoun

min (plural (Sylt) minen)
* (Sylt) mine (first-person singular possessive pronoun)
* (Föhr-Amrum) feminine/neuter of man (“mine”)
* (Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of man (“mine”)

### See also

* The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
* At is not enclitic; it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
* Dual forms wat / onk and jat / jonk are obsolete, as is feminine jü / hör.
* Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
* The forms üsens, jamens, hörens are used optionally (and decreasingly) when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation.
The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur. Dual forms wat / unk and jat / junk are obsolete. Attributive and independent possessives are not distinguished in Mooring.
* The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
* Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
* The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
* Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɪn]

### Pronoun

min
* I
* me
* my, mine

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈmiːn/

### Pronoun

mīn
* accusative/genitive of mii (“we”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse minn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/, /mɪn/
* Audio:(file)

### Determiner

min m (feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)
* my, mine

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | feminine | masculine | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Singular | Second | general | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | hennes | hennes | hennes |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | masculine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vår | vårt | våre |
| Plural | Second | general | dere | dere | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Second | formal (very rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Plural | Third | general | de | dem | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |

### References

* “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* https://naob.no/ordbok/min_3

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse minn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz. Akin to English mine.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪnː/

#### Determiner

min (masculine min, feminine mi, neuter mitt, plural mine)
* my, mine

##### See also

$^1$ Rare or dialectal. $^2$ Unofficial today.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/

#### Verb

min
* imperative of mina

### References

* “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

### Determiner

mīn
* my
* mine

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: mijn
** Dutch: mijn
** Limburgish: mien

#### Further reading

* “mīn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Cognate with Old Frisian mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/

#### Determiner

mīn
* my
** 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 8‎:Iċ… hlūde ċirme, healde mīne wīsan, hlēoþre ne mīþe,…I… loudly cry out, hold my tone, don't hide a sound,…

##### Descendants

* Middle English: min
** English: my, mine (pronoun)
** Scots: mine (pronoun)

#### Pronoun

mīn
* genitive of iċ: mine, of me

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *minniz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *min- (“small”). Akin to Old High German minniro (“smaller”) (German minder), Old Norse minni (“smaller”) (Icelandic minni, minnr), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌶𐌰 (minniza, “younger”), 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “young”), Latin minor (“smaller”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /min/

#### Adjective

min
* small

##### Derived terms

* mindōm
* minlīċ
* minsian

##### Descendants

* Middle English: min
** Scots: min, myn
** English: min

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.
Cognate with Old English mīn, Old Saxon mīn (Dutch mijn), Old High German mīn (German mein), Old Norse mínn (Swedish min), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (meins).

### Determiner

mīn
* my

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: man
* Saterland Frisian: min, mien
* West Frisian: myn

### Pronoun

mīn
* genitive of ik: mine, of me

#### Declension
## Old High German
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, whence also Old English mīn, Old Norse mínn.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/

#### Pronoun

mīn
* my
* mine

##### Inflection

Old High German personal pronouns :
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Genitive | Dative | Accusative |
| Singular | First | | ih (ihha, ihcha) | mīn | mir | mih |
| Singular | Second | | dū | dīn | dir | dih |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | er (her) | (sīn) | imu, imo | inan, in |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | siu; sī, si | ira (iru, iro) | iru, iro | sia |
| Singular | Third | Neuter | iz | es, is | imu, imo | iz |
| Plural | First | | wir | unsēr | uns | unsih |
| Plural | Second | | ir | iuwēr | iu | iuwih |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | sie | iro | im, in | sie |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | sio | iro | im, in | sio |
| Plural | Third | Neuter | siu | iro | im, in | siu |
| Polite form | Second | | ir | iuwēr | iu | iuwih |

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: mīn
** Alemannic German: miin, myn
** Bavarian: mei
    Cimbrian: main, moi (Luserna)
** Hunsrik: mein
** Luxembourgish: mäin
** German: mein
** Vilamovian: maj
** Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Adverb

min
* less

#### References

* Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīn.

### Determiner

mīn
* my
* mine

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: mīn
** German Low German: mien

#### See also
## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

### Pronoun

mīn
* my

#### Declension
## Picard
### Pronoun

min m
* my

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmin/
* Rhymes: -in
* Syllabification: min

### Noun

min f
* genitive plural of mina

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmĩ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmin/
* Hyphenation: min

### Noun

min m (invariable)
* Abbreviation of minuto.
** Used to indicate time in relation to an hour on a 24-hour clock.
    O evento é hoje, às 20h30min ― The event is today at 8:30 p.m.
** Used to indicate any sequence of time in minutes.
    O atleta completou a corrida em 1h20min45s ― The athlete completed the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 45 seconds

#### Usage notes

* This abbreviation uses no spaces or points and must always follow a number (in its most common usage, a number between 00 and 59 to indicate the minutes of an hour).
* This abbreviation is often preceded by a number followed by h, used to represent hours.
* The abbreviation can be followed by another abbreviation, s, to represent seconds.
** Example: 20h43min08s

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Cognates include West Frisian myn and German mein.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪn/

### Determiner

min (feminine mien, neuter mien, plural mien, predicative minnen)
* my, mine

#### See also
### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “min”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish men, min (“flour, meal; fine powder, dust”), from Proto-Celtic *min-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tew-oh₂, see also Ancient Greek ματέω (matéō). However, compare μάσσω (mássō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mjin/

### Noun

min f (genitive singular mine, plural minean)
* flour
    Synonym: flùr

#### Usage notes

* Usually used in compounds.

#### Derived terms

* min-choirce

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1992), “*męti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 19 (*męs⁽'⁾arь – *morzakъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 19
* Edward Dwelly (1911) “min”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “men, min”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Seychellois Creole
### Etymology

From Cantonese 麵 / 面 (min$^6$).

### Noun

min
* noodle

### References

* Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

## Sumerian
### Romanization

min
* Romanization of 𒈫 (min)

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Etymology 1

From minut.

#### Noun

min
* min; minute

### Etymology 2

From minimum.

#### Noun

min
* min; minimum

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse mínn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

#### Pronoun

min c (neuter singular mitt, plural mina)
* my
* mine

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

Borrowed from German Miene.

#### Noun

min c
* a facial expression
    Synonym: ansiktsuttryck

##### Derived terms

* hålla god min
* minspel

##### See also

* uppsyn

### References

* min in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* min in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* min in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* nim+

## Tatar
### Pronoun

min
* I

## Unami
### Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *mi·na (“berry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /min/

### Noun

min inan (plural mina)
* berry, huckleberry, currant; seed

#### Derived terms

* minhe
* minuu

### References

* Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “min”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [min˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [min˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mɨn˧˧]

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronoun

min • (綿, 㒙)
* (archaic, literary) I; me

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

(classifier con) min
* (dialectal) gaur

## Welsh
### Etymology

According to Stokes, from Proto-Celtic *maknā, *meknos, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”), see also English maw.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːn/

### Noun

min m (plural minion)
* point, sharp edge
    Synonyms: ymyl, awch
* edge, border, brim
    Synonyms: ymyl, ochr, byl
* lip
    Synonym: gwefus

#### Derived terms

* minio (“to sharpen, to whet”)
* miniog (“sharp, keen”)
* minlliw (“lipstick”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 197