mein

mein

1. bird

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

From Middle High German and Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Compare English my and mine.

• IPA^(key): /maɪ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Homophone: meinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

mein

1. (possessive) my

Declension of mein
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	mein	meine	mein	meine
genitive	meines	meiner	meines	meiner
dative	meinem	meiner	meinem	meinen
accusative	meinen	meine	mein	meine

When used as a possessive pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form meiner, which equals English "mine", and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form meines or meins.

• dein Vater und meiner – your father and mine
• dein Kind und mein(e)s – your child and mine

When the pronoun is placed after a noun, it is left uninflected:

• Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein fahr ich von diesem Leben (song Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein) – Towards Heaven to my father go I from this life.

mein

1. (archaic) genitive of ich

• “mein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “mein” in Duden online

• Mine

mein

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽

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

• IPA^(key): /maɪ̯n/

mein

1. my

¹Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą.

mein n (genitive singular meins, nominative plural mein)

1. disease, illness
2. harm, damage

• (disease): sjúkdómur m
• (harm): skaði m

• nemi

From Old English mīn.

mein (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of min

mein (subjective I)

1. Alternative form of min

mein

1. Alternative form of mayn

mein

1. mountain

mein n (definite singular meinet, indefinite plural mein, definite plural meina or meinene)

1. alternative form of men

mein

1. imperative of meine

• IPA^(key): /mɛɪːn/

From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą.

mein n (definite singular meinet, indefinite plural mein, definite plural meina)

1. harm
2. obstacle

• til meins
• meinføre

• meine

From Old Norse meinn, from Proto-Germanic *mainaz.

mein (neuter meint, definite singular and plural meine, comparative meinare, indefinite superlative meinast, definite superlative meinaste)

1. cumbersome, mean
2. precise, keen

   Synonym: visshøv

• mein-

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mein

1. imperative of meine

• “mein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mein”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “mein” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• mein-, meni

mein oblique singular, f (oblique plural meinz, nominative singular mein, nominative plural meinz)

1. Alternative form of main

From Proto-Germanic *mainą.

mein n

1. harm, mischief, crime, misdeed

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mein

1. strong feminine nominative singular of meinn
2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of meinn

• “mein”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press